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is fascinating to compare the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, one of our Founding Fathers, in this book, with events happening in the USA today! Very interesting.
A very, very long read but I thought it was worth it, These are some of my favorite quotes,

: "I cannot live without books, " Pg
: "Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe, " Pg
: "I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
" Pg
: "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
" Pg
: "Difference in opinion is helpful in religion, " Pg
: "When angry, count to ten before you speak if very angry, a hundred, " Pg
: "Walking is the best possible exercise, Habituate yourself to walk very far, " Pg
: "The liberties of speaking and writing guards our other liberties, " Pg

These quotes just come to show that the Founding Fathers in some ways, especially Jefferson, were more liberal than the conservatives that worship them today.


Some say that Jefferson would have had Aspergers, And judging by their reasons, I think he is, He was obsessed with remodeling his house, didn't really talk at meetings, struggled with relationships, and was overwhelmed by loud noises.
That sounds pretty Aspie to me, “The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties, ”

“Quotations of Thomas Jefferson” is just that, a short anthology of aphorisms, It is a nice thing to serve as an introduction, but it is not to be substituted for actually reading Jeffersons writings.
These quotes are isolated from context, and thus can easily be misconstrued from original intent, Still, some of this stuff is pretty brilliant and/or profound, even removed from context,
This slim volume is a nice introduction to the mind of Thomas Jefferson, and hopefully will lead one to reading more of and about him.
This is a great collection of Jefferson's famous and not so famous quotes from everything ie, his writings, correspondence, speeches. It is in a nice little hardcover book so it is a nice addition to any library, It also has a mini biography/background on Jefferson at the beginning of the book, It's worth the purchase/read, Exactly what it says, and they are some of the b at quotes of Thomas if not the best of any founder.

Great, quick read More than any other Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson made his reputation on the brilliance of his writing.
John Adams chose theyearold Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence largely because of his "masterly Pen.
" The genius of the Declaration and Jefferson's later writings amply confirmed Adams's judgment, Few writers have said so much on so many subjectsand said it so wellas Jefferson, The Quotable Jefferson the most comprehensive and authoritative book of Jefferson quotations ever publisheddemonstrates that as does no other book.



Drawing primarily on The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , published by Princeton University Press, John Kaminski has carefully collected and cleverly arranged Jefferson's pronouncements on almostsubjects, ranging from the profound and publicthe Constitutionto the personal and peculiarcold water bathing.




The Quotable Jefferson is the first book to put Jefferson's words in context with a substantial introduction, a chronology of Jefferson's life, the source of each quotation, an appendix identifying Jefferson's correspondents, and a comprehensive index.
The main section of Jefferson quotations, which are arranged alphabetically by topic, is followed by three other fascinating sections of quotations: Jefferson on his contemporaries, his contemporaries on him, and Jefferson on himself.



This book will delight the casual reader and browser, but it is also a serious and carefully edited reference work.
Whatever the subject, if Jefferson said something memorable about

it, you are likely to find it here, Good book to start researching Jefferson, Great basic bio. I'm pretty sure I'll have to read it again even though it's clips of his writings they still are heavy.
Thank You, Michael Gwaltney!
Great little book w/quotes by Thomas Jefferson,
Useful and quick to use, Interesting, but you can get any message out of bits of a person's letters and writings taken out of context.
Short and to the point, TJ understood how hard we fought as Americans to free ourselves from the yoke of tyranny, One of my favorite quotes, "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
" LOts and Lots of Quotes, Topical Organization fails to capture evolution of Jefferson's thinking over time and ignores links between topics, Context missing sometimes. I love it. I refer to it frequently More than a mere renaissance man, Jefferson may actually have been a new kind of man.
He was fluent in five languages and able to read two others, He wrote, over the course of his life, over sixteen thousand letters, He was acquainted with nearly every influential person in America, and a great many in Europe as well.
He was a lawyer, agronomist, musician, scientist, philosopher, author, architect, inventor, and statesman, Though he never set foot outside of the American continent before adulthood, he acquired an education that rivaled the finest to be attained in Europe.
He was clearly the foremost American son of the Enlightenment, Jefferson was born at Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia on April,, He was tutored by the Reveren More than a mere renaissance man, Jefferson may actually have been a new kind of man.
He was fluent in five languages and able to read two others, He wrote, over the course of his life, over sixteen thousand letters, He was acquainted with nearly every influential person in America, and a great many in Europe as well.
He was a lawyer, agronomist, musician, scientist, philosopher, author, architect, inventor, and statesman, Though he never set foot outside of the American continent before adulthood, he acquired an education that rivaled the finest to be attained in Europe.
He was clearly the foremost American son of the Enlightenment, Jefferson was born at Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia on April,, He was tutored by the Reverend James Maury, a learned man, in the finest classical tradition, He began the study of Latin, Greek, and French at the age of, He attended William and Mary College in Williamsburg at sixteen years old, then continued his education in the Law under George Wythe, the first professor of law in America who later would sign Jefferson's Declaration in.
Thomas Jefferson attended the House of Burgesses as a student inwhen he witnessed Patrick Henry's defiant stand against the Stamp Act.
He gained the Virginia bar and began practice in, and was elected to the House of Burgesses in.
It was there that his involvement in revolutionary politics began, He was never a very vocal member, but his writing, his quiet work in committee, and his ability to distill large volumes of information to essence, made him an invaluable member in any deliberative body.
Inwhen a Virginia convention selected delegates to the Continental Congress, Jefferson was selected as an alternate, It was expected that Payton Randolph, then Speaker of the Virginia House and president of the Continental Congress too, would be recalled by the Royal Governor.
This did happen and Jefferson went in his place, Thomas Jefferson had a theory about self governance and the rights of people who established habitat in new lands.
Before attending the Congress in Philadelphia he codified these thoughts in an article called A Summary View of the Rights of British America.
This paper he sent on ahead of him, He fell ill on the road and was delayed for several days, By the time he arrived, his paper had been published as a pamphlet and sent throughout the colonies and on to England where Edmund Burke, sympathetic to the colonial condition, had it reprinted and circulated widely.
InJefferson, then a member of the committee to draft a declaration of independence, was chosen by the committee to write the draft.
This he did, with some minor corrections from James Madison and an embellishment from Franklin, the document was offered to the Congress on the first day of July.
The congress modified it somewhat, abbreviating certain wording and removing points that were outside of general agreement, The Declaration was adopted on the Fourth of July, Jefferson returned to his home not long afterward, His wife and two of his children were very ill, he was tired of being remote from his home, and he was anxious about the development of a new government for his native state.
In June ofhe succeeded Patrick Henry as Governor of Virginia, The nation was still at war, and the southern colonies were under heavy attack, Jefferson's Governorship was clouded with hesitation, He himself concluded that the state would be better served by a military man, He declined re election after his first term and was succeeded by General Nelson of Yorktown, Inhe retired to Monticello, the estate he inherited, to write, work on improved agriculture, and attend his wife.
It was during this time that he wrote Notes on the State of Virginia, a work that he never completed.
Martha Jefferson died in September of, This event threw Jefferson into a depression that, according to his eldest daughter he might never have recovere sitelink.