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“I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.”

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This volume offers a wide-ranging selection of Thomas Jefferson's writings, showcasing his intellectual contributions across various domains such as politics, philosophy, and personal life. It includes his seminal Declaration of Independence, letters to friends and contemporaries, and his thoughts on issues of the day. The Portable Thomas Jefferson provides insight into Jefferson's character and his influence on American history. more

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Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, a distinguished politician, philosopher, architect, and scientist. He was born on April 13, 1743, and died on July 4, 1826. Jefferson advocated for democracy and freedom in politics and was one of the main authors of the Declaration of Independence. His political ideas had a profound impact on the founding and development of the United States. more

“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”

Giving Wells Made Country States Political Water Interesting Flow Well Being Islands Mexico Florida Cuba Most Interesting Gulf Of Mexico

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.”

Government Common Objects Administration Sole Consent

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.”

Giving Humans Wells Art Might Rights Human Nature Praise Ill Dues Flattery

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.”

People Thinking Heart Country Government Would Be Form Conditions My Heart Governors Forms Of Government

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.”

Impossible Building Stones Ugly Architecture Uncomfortable Boards Proportion Bricks Virginia Limes

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“A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.”

Wells Country States Values Building Materials Degrees Increase Woods Architecture Improvement Permanent Acquisition Ornaments Edifice

Book:Notes on the State of Virginia

Source: Notes on the State of Virginia

“You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.”

Art Subjects

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.”

Neighbor Good Neighbor

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792

“The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.”

Duty Office Determined Campaigns Retirement Application Retiring Imperfect Execution Governors Virginia

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“If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.”

Ifs Country Ordinary Gentleman Branches Neglect Chemistry Obliged Amusing

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