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
All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.
The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.
Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.
The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.
Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.