Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson

I drafted the Declaration, designed Monticello, founded a university, and kept a garden. I believe the earth belongs to the living. Every generation must claim its own freedom.

Thomas Jefferson

·1786·Paris, France

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is best. A horse gives but a kind of half exercise, and a carriage is no better than a cradle.

Letter II · On Discursiveness in Reading

Thomas Jefferson

·1774

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

A Summary View of the Rights of British America