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
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.
The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.