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
Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
History, by apprising (men) of the past, will enable them to judge of the future, it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.
A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.