Thomas Jefferson argued that because no generation has the right to bind subsequent generations, the constitution should expire every 19 years.
Thomas Jefferson has a reputation for literature, science, and a happy talent of composition.
John Adams is the only President to be defeated by his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is aware of the gross inconsistency between the principles of the declaration of independence and the fact of negro slavery, but he had not the spirit of martyrdom.
Thomas Jefferson is the drafter of the declaration of independence because of his writing skills and the fact that he is a virginian.
Thomas Jefferson is but a boy to John Adams. Adams was at least ten years older than him in age and more than twenty years older than him in politics.
Thomas Jefferson's genius is of the old French school. It conceives better than it combines.

Thomas Jefferson is a man whose his talents were of the highest order, his ambition transcendent, and his disposition to intrigue irrepressible.
Thomas Jefferson made his own version of the Bible by literally cutting out Jesus' miracles but leaving in the parts about his moral teachings.
Thomas Jefferson described the miracles in the Bible, including Jesus coming back from the dead, as "contrary to reason".

Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US
Thomas Jefferson is a man whose attachment to his friends - or rather to those of whom he could make useful to himself - was thoroughgoing and exemplary.
Thomas Jefferson was Deist, the belief that a God created the universe but hasn't interfered with it since.