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
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
We never repent of having eaten too little.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man...
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.