By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy ...

Barton relayed Michaux’s idea to the society’s vice president, Thomas Jefferson, who also happened to be the U.S. secretary of state. Jefferson’s obsession with the frontier west of the ...

McClure, general editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson project at Princeton ... by rendering them my supreme delight,” Jefferson reflected in 1809, as he prepared for post-presidential ...

1. “When angry, count 10 before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.” —Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809) 2. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” —Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865 ...

Led by Thomas Jefferson, whom they helped elect to the presidency for two terms (1801-1809), the Republicans believed in individual freedoms and the rights of states. They feared that the ...

Thomas Jefferson, the third American president, who led between 1801 and 1809 said of humanity “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that his version of the New Testament distilled "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has never been offered to man." Universal History Archive / Getty ...

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence ... Jefferson, who’s time as president was from 1801-1809, retired to Monticello where, among other things, he worked on his designs ...