U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything that you have.” As Anne Berkes, the author of ...

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president ... He was a shabby dresser. After taking office, Jefferson offended some in Washington who believed the president should be an impeccably-dressed ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

So I’m not going to go there.’ Jefferson says that when you agreed to take on this high office you agreed to take on these personal risks in the country’s interests. So that fear of personal ...

And in 1779, Virginia’s wartime governor, Thomas Jefferson ... but for the eight years Jefferson was in office, there was no thanksgiving.

Thomas Jefferson believed that his version of the ... Jefferson Bible on the day that legislator took the oath of office. (Disclosure: Smithsonian Books has recently published a new facsimile ...

Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares had called for the federal government to intervene in the admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.