The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
TJ
Thomas JeffersonA Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
About Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third U.S. President. (1743-1826)
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- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Letter to John Adams (1816)
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- There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.Letter to Henry Lee (1826)
- But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.Letter to Charles Willson Peale (1811)
- Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.Letter to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1816)
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