Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.  A proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights motivating 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. 

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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

One loves to possess arms though they hope never to have occasion for them.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

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