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
I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.
My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.
The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.
The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.