Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jeffersonwas an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He was elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams and in 1800 was elected the third President. Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, which motivated American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a new nation. He produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth13 April 1743
CityShadwell, VA
CountryUnited States of America
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.