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
Thomas Jefferson quotes about
The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.
Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.