There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.
TJ
Thomas JeffersonLetter to Henry Lee (1826)
About Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third U.S. President. (1743-1826)
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- The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Letter to John Adams (1816)
- We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.Letter to William Roscoe (1820)
- 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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- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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