Thomas Jefferson born this day
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.—Brainy Quotes
Thomas Jefferson was born this day in 1743 in Virginia. He was the third president, wrote the initial draft of the Declaration of Independence, promoted the principles of a Republic, and was our first Secretary of State. He was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase which occurred on the 30th of this month in 1803 doubling the size of America overnight.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.—Thomas Jefferson
