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:

    “The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for only filling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, “that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living”: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)