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Famous Quotes By Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson is known as "the father of American democracy". He was born at Shadwell, Virginia, USA, on April 13, 1743. He became famous as the draughtsman of the American Declaration of Independence.

In 1880 he became the third President of the United Sates of America. He was re-elected in 1804. Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826. The inscription on his monument reads:- Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statue of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper - Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations - Thomas Jefferson

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried - Thomas Jefferson

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable - Thomas Jefferson

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions - Thomas Jefferson

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

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