Thomas Jefferson

3rd U.S. President

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Independent, original, analytical, and determined. Have an exceptional ability to turn theories into solid plans of action. Highly value knowledge, competence, and structure. Driven to derive meaning from their visions. Long-range thinkers. Have very high standards for their performance, and the performance of others. Natural leaders, but will follow if they trust existing leaders.

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Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

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