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
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
Peace is our passion.
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.
I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.
My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.
Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
Force cannot give right.
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
That government that governs least governs best.
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.