Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
The mayor was a convicted user of cocaine while he served as mayor and was attacked for being a poor role model.
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.