About Thomas Jefferson:
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). He was an ardent proponent of democracy and embraced the principles of republicanism and the rights of the individual with worldwide influence. At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia, and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781). In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France and later the first United States Secretary of State (1790–1793) serving under President George Washington. In opposition to Alexander Hamilton's Federalism, Jefferson and his close friend, James Madison, organized the Democratic-Republican Party, and later resigned from Washington's cabinet. Elected Vice President in 1796 in the administration of John Adams, Jefferson opposed Adams, and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas JeffersonPeace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas JeffersonThere is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas JeffersonHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson