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
The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
Those are governed best who are governed least.
If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this.
Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation
A free government is of all others the most energetic.
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep the government from running the Church. But it is not to keep Christian principles out of the government.