a person who loves and strongly supports or fights for his or her country
Thomas Jefferson
Born in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello.
Freckled and sandy-haired, rather tall and awkward, Jefferson was eloquent as a correspondent, but he was no public speaker. In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress, he contributed his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause. As the "silent member" of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786.
Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He resigned in 1793.
Words of Wisdom from a man who lived long ago, Whom we owe our Freedoms and Country to!
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing...."
"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
He also invented some of your favorite things
dumbwaiters for wine bottles
the hideaway bed
macaroni and cheese, not to mention
the pedometer
the plow moldboard of least resistance
the polygraph (not a lie detector, but a copying machine)
a revolving bookstand
the spherical sundial
an improved swivel chair
the hideaway bed
macaroni and cheese, not to mention
the pedometer
the plow moldboard of least resistance
the polygraph (not a lie detector, but a copying machine)
a revolving bookstand
the spherical sundial
an improved swivel chair
HE TAUGHT HIMSELF ARABIC FROM HIS OWN QURAN
