Jefferson

Jefferson

Jefferson often refers to Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, the principal author of its Declaration of Independence.

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Famous quotes containing the word jefferson:

    “You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it’s motives.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “[E]very thing is useful which contributes to fix us in the principles and practice of virtue.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)