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 affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
Freedom, the first-born of science.
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.