Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.
Jefferson, Thomas. "To François de Barbé-Marbois." 14 June 1817. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Albert Ellery Bergh, vol. 15, The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904, p. 130.
Actually the statement is not literally true though the exceptions are not numerous. People who sold their American common stocks before the 1929 stock market made money. The few people who bet against the U. S. Housing and Mortgage markets before the Meltdown of 2008, made a great deal of money. Over extended long periods, Biden’s statement is true.
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.
