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"Those who will come after us will be as wise as we are, and as able to take care of themselves as we have been," Thomas Jefferson said in 1811.
Thomas Jefferson once described the presidency as "unceasing drudgery" and said the job caused him to lose friends daily.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden urged students at his alma mater on Friday to take a road trip — to work for the Democratic ticket in hotly contested Pennsylvania.
President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American."
The first Muslim elected to Congress says he will take his oath of office using a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson to make the point that "religious differences are nothing to be afraid of."
Can George Washington and Thomas Jefferson succeed where Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea failed? The U.S. Mint is hoping America's presidents will win acceptance, finally, for the maligned dollar coin.
Selecting the nation's best Thomas Jefferson impersonator came down to a coin toss — a Jefferson head nickel, of course.
Martin Luther King Jr. belongs among American icons like Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, national leaders said Monday at the ceremonial groundbreaking for a King memorial.
Thomas Jefferson isn't about to start listening to an iPod, with telltale earbud wires dangling from under his three-cornered hat as he walks the streets of Colonial Williamsburg.
An Apology to Third World Dictators & Robber BaronsEver since I was old enough learn about "politics," and its practitioners, especially those labeled "third world dictators," I have been railing against those third world dictators. Everyone knew about the "big boys," like Adolph, Mao and their ilk.
Liberals worship the government, especially the federal government, because the government allows them to accomplish things that if done privately would lead to incarceration. For example, if I saw a needy person and I reached into your pocket to help that person, I'd be arrested.
Giving a Voice to the Jeffersonian TraditionThis year, hundreds of thousands of citizens have met in Tea Party rallies across our nation and have given a voice to the Jeffersonian tradition. The crowds support the reduction of federal power and an end to undisciplined government spending.
Extort thy neighbor, or how to ruin a nation. By Gary Horne. August 15, 2009The code words used for so-called "health care reform," single-payer, universal coverage, etc. bring images into the minds of many of "free" health care, something for nothing.
Who was that gun-toting anti-Obama protester? - Joan WalshOne of Tuesday's big mysteries was the motivation behind anti-Obama protester William Kostric, the man who brought a loaded gun to the town hall meeting and carried a sign referencing Thomas Jefferson's famous credo, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with t …
I am penning this epistle just thirty-six miles from Vicksburg, Mississippi, the site of one of the most important, if not the most important, battles of the Civil War. There on July 4, 1863, General John C. Pemberton surrendered Vicksburg to General Ulysses S. Grant.
Thomas Jefferson & John Adams: A revolutionary reconciliationTogether, they crafted The Declaration of Independence. Later, they served their new nation as diplomats. Eventually, they became bitter political rivals.
President Obama, My Response To Your Fourth of July LetterI also ask the President to stand with us to end our government's collusion with war profiteers who create weapons of destruction and fill their coffers with OUR MONEY. I ask the President to replace the obscenity of war with the audacity of peace.
10 things you many not know about the Declaration of IndependenceAs school children we all learn of the significance of the Declaration of Independence.
Remembering What the Declaration of Independence is NotWhen we celebrate the Fourth of July, we are celebrating one of the most important political documents in the history of the world.
So you hold that the government in Washington might be evil, determined to take away your liberties as guaranteed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle the …
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvements, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. …
The Moral and Economic Decline of AmericaWe have not had a true capitalist system in this country for a very long time, but rather an oligarchy ever increasing in power.
Pirates and the CIA: What would Thomas Jefferson have done?We need to deal with this problem from the beach side, in concert with the ocean side, but we don't have an embassy in Somalia and limited, ineffective intelligence operations. We need to work in Somalia and in Lebanon, where a lot of the ransom money has changed hands.
Michelle "if I only had a brain" Bachmann, the perennial embarrassment to Minnesota, has once again shown her stupidity by misquoting Thomas Jefferson and using that misquote as a call for a "bloody" revolution.
I love the Union of independent states that was wrought in the forge of revolution and delivered by the hand of God Almighty upon this continent as solidified by its Constitution in 1787.
On Role Models and their BongsThe Michael Phelps bong "scandal" has brought new attention to marijuana and those who smoke it, especially those we consider to be "role models." So I decided to gather some quotes from some other "rode models" to gain a little perspective on the issue.
Mammoth Tusk Found At SD Construction SiteSAN DIEGO -- Scientists have found a second mammoth tusk at the construction site for the new Thomas Jefferson School of Law in downtown San Diego's East Village, it was reported Friday.
Our third president had some amazing quotes that are still applicable today. Sometimes when I really think the world has changed, I read these quotes and it reminds me that "the more things change, the more they remain the same."
I have seen a few quotes arguing that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. The following quotations by America's founding fathers were collected by me from various sources. They are presented here in totality for convenience. James Madison
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