Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.
Jefferson, Thomas. "To the Chiefs of the Mandan Nation, 30 December 1806." The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, vol. 16, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904, p. 412.
This famous ad showed a young girl removing petals from a daisy which then transitions into a nuclear explosion. It is often considered to be the most effective political TV commercial ever produced. One of the reasons it was so effective is that although the Democrats only ran the ad once, it was repeatedly played on television news and analysis shows and is a much studied and discussed approach. The ad was produced by Tony Schwartz.
There were many who believed that a thriving growth economy depended in part on wartime military spending levels. The issue is still controversial.
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.
