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"Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 N.S. – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential founders of the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Embargo Act of 1807, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). ..."

Born

13 Apr 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia

Died

4 Jul 1826, in Monticello, Virginia

Biography

Autobiography 1743 -- 1790 With the Declaration of Independence, 6 Jan 1821
Related Topic: United States Declaration of Independence
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

Brief Biography of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Monticello

Life of Thomas Jefferson, by B. L. Rayner, 1834
Revised and edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.

Web Sites

The Thomas Jefferson Papers
American Memory Collections at the Library of Congress

Articles

First Principles, by Charley Reese, 24 Mar 2007
"Thomas Jefferson, in his first inaugural speech, listed what he called 'the essential principles of our government and consequently those which ought to shape its administration.' ... Jefferson said that should we wander from these principles in error or alarm, we should retrace our steps to regain the road that leads to peace, liberty and safety."

Honoring Jefferson, by Joseph Sobran, 1 Jul 2004
"A master of several languages and many sciences, Jefferson sought to reduce political philosophy to simple terms every American could understand. The Declaration distills the political philosophy of John Locke, which Jefferson regarded as the consensus of reasonable men of his own generation."

Jefferson on American Liberty, by Gary M. Galles, Mises.org Daily Article, 4 Jul 2002
"Jefferson once asked a seminal question: 'Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?' Our founding documents were designed, in part by Jefferson's hand, to answer that question for America. ..."

The Latest Defamation of Jefferson, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, 31 Mar 2006
Related Topic: Abraham Lincoln
"Jefferson was the apostle of states' rights, enunciated in his famous Kentucky Resolve of 1798; Lincoln waged the bloodiest war in American history to destroy the Jeffersonian states' rights doctrine. Jefferson authored America's Declaration of Secession from the British empire, known as the Declaration of Independence."

Thomas Jefferson's Sophisticated, Radical Vision of Liberty, by Jim Powell, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Jul 1995
Related Topic: Property Rights
"Jefferson ... affirmed that all people are entitled to liberty, regardless what laws might say. If laws don't protect liberty, he declared, then the laws are illegitimate, and people may rebel. While Jefferson didn't originate this idea, he put it in a way that set afire the imagination of people around the world."

Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States, by Murray N. Rothbard, Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1995
Related Topics: Bureaucracy, John Adams, Founding Fathers, Government, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Limited Government, John Marshall, Richard M. Nixon, Parkinson's Law, Pennsylvania, Political Parties, Spoils System, Martin Van Buren, Voting, George Washington
"... Jefferson is a classic case of corruption of principle from being in power. The first Jefferson Administration ... was certainly one of the finest libertarian moments ... Expenses were lowered, the army and navy were sharply reduced, the bureaucracy was cut, the public debt retired, and the federal excise tax, and the Alien and Sedition Acts, were repealed."

The American Heritage of "Isolationism", by Gregory Bresiger, Freedom Daily, May 2006
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, John Adams, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson
"... when ... Thomas Jefferson, took office in 1801, he, too, paid homage to Washington's foreign-policy advice. Jefferson, despite his differences with the Federalists, promised no 'entangling alliances.' Isolationism, or non-interventionism, was, for a short time, the established policy of the United States."

The Rocky Road of American Taxation, by Charles Adams, Mises.org Daily Article, 15 Apr 2006
Related Topics: Taxation, Samuel Adams, American Revolutionary War, Canada, Thirteen Colonies, Benjamin Franklin, Private Property, Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Voting, War
Adapted from the author's For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
"When Jefferson ran for president in 1800, his anti-federalist tax platform endeared him to the hearts of the people and assured his victory. ... when Jefferson tells us rebellions are good tonic for government, in his frame of reference he was talking about tax rebellions."

Would-Be Rulers without Clothes, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, May 2008
Related Topics: Politics, Claude Frederic Bastiat, Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Declaration of Independence, John Locke
Examines Hillary Clinton's assertion about "wanting" a universal health care plan
"It's what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote, 'All men are created equal' in the Declaration of Independence. He certainly did not mean that people are equal in intelligence, talent, energy, ambition, physical strength, and so on. And he couldn't have meant that they should merely be equal before the law, because that would be a low bar indeed; we can imagine a society in which the law treats everyone rather poorly but nonetheless equally. ..."

Writings

A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774

Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782
Related Topic: Virginia

Books

Mr. Jefferson
by Albert Jay Nock, 1926

ISBN 0873190246: Paperback, Hallberg Publishing, 1983