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:

    “It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)