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
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.
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.
The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.