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 selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain
On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.
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.
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.
Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven...
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.
No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.