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 most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
The only purpose of government is to protect the people.
We rarely repent of having eaten too little.
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.