Quotes from one of the Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson, one of our famed American Founding Fathers, was born on April 13, 1743.
Most famously, he was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and served as John Adamsâ Vice President before he became the third President of the United States in 1801.
In the years to follow writing the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson worked to make its words a reality in Virginia and less than a decade later wrote a bill establishing religious freedom.
During Jeffersonâs presidency, he slashed military expenditures, cut the budget, and eliminated the tax on whiskey, while simultaneously reducing the national debt by over 30%.
Thomas Jefferson died in 1826 at the age of 83.
Jefferson served his country for over 50 years of his life as a public official, historian, and philosopher.
ACTUAL QUOTES:
âWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.â
âRightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add âwithin the limits of the lawâ because law is often but the tyrantâs will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.â
âThe care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.â
âExperience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.â
âThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.â
âEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.â
âA Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.â
âWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.â
THE ABOVE WERE WORDS FROM ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS THOMAS JEFFERSON... TIME TO HEED THEM đ„
*Sally Hemings Baby Daddy đ§
Thomas Jefferson, one of our famed American Founding Fathers, was born on April 13, 1743.
Most famously, he was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and served as John Adamsâ Vice President before he became the third President of the United States in 1801.
In the years to follow writing the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson worked to make its words a reality in Virginia and less than a decade later wrote a bill establishing religious freedom.
During Jeffersonâs presidency, he slashed military expenditures, cut the budget, and eliminated the tax on whiskey, while simultaneously reducing the national debt by over 30%.
Thomas Jefferson died in 1826 at the age of 83.
Jefferson served his country for over 50 years of his life as a public official, historian, and philosopher.
ACTUAL QUOTES:
âWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.â
âRightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add âwithin the limits of the lawâ because law is often but the tyrantâs will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.â
âThe care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.â
âExperience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.â
âThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.â
âEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.â
âA Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.â
âWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.â
THE ABOVE WERE WORDS FROM ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS THOMAS JEFFERSON... TIME TO HEED THEM đ„
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