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
No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. But the PNP and Jamaica have our own Thomas Jefferson ... former leader and Premier Norman Washington Manley. Indeed Norman Washington Manley was better - note the word
Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.
[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
Delay is preferable to error.
I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.