The Thomas Jefferson Medal may refer to several different awards named in honor of Thomas Jefferson:
- The Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is given by the American Philosophical Society
- The University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson Foundation have jointly granted Jefferson medals in honor of achievements in architecture, law, and more recently, citizen leadership. Since the University of Virginia does not give honorary degrees, these awards are the highest external honors bestowed by UVA.
- The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture is given jointly by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the University of Virginia School of Architecture
- Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law is given jointly by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the University of Virginia School of Law
- Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership is given jointly by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the University of Virginia
- The Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science is given by the Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation
- The Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service is an award of the United States Department of State
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“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass. Armenian refugees, Jewish refugees, refugees from Franco Spain. But a political leader or artistic figure is an exile. Thomas Mann yesterday, Theodorakis today. Exile is the noble and dignified term, while a refugee is more hapless.... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)