Thomas Jefferson Quotes
[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.
Jefferson, Thomas. "Letter to James Madison, 23 August 1799." The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Barbara B. Oberg, vol. 31, Princeton University Press, 2004, p. 164.
This Proclamation was issued upon arrival of the British occupying imperial army in present day Iraq. The English policy makers like the Bush administration almost a century later were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
Burke argued for England giving America much more freedom and self determination. This quotation is, many think, the greatest description of American love of freedom that has ever been verbalized.
The term “America” was used by him and others to refer to South and Central America—not the United States.
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.
