Thomas Jefferson Quotes
A splendid misery.
Referring to the vice presidency:
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), Attributed
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Depressed by the Union defeat at Fredericksburg in January of 1963, Lincoln observed of the presidency:
On the morning of August 4, 1974, hours before his resignation in disgrace, President Richard M. Nixon called the Senator to say good-bye.
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Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
