The Founders: Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and a signer.

When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

One of my favorite Jefferson quotes. There are many more sprinkled through my twenty plus years of writing this blog.


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1 Comment

  1. Bob Kirschenbaum

    My favorite, and a very appropriate one for today, is: “The government the people elect is the government they deserve.” Jefferson used the line but it did not actually originate with him.

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