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
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.
When the heart is right, the feet are swift.
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed.
Government governed least is government governed best.
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.
Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.
Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.
Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.