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Thomas Jefferson Facts
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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). 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). Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. (1743 – 1826) |
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Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
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The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
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