Tag: Thomas Jefferson

Springtime in Virginia

“On the whole I find nothing any where else in point of climate which Virginia need envy to any part of the world . . . . Spring and autumn, which make a paradise of our country, are rigorous winter with them [New Englanders] . . . . When we consider how much climate contributes …

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365 Things I Believe: Good Government

  Third President of the United States, American Founding Father, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Virginian, Thomas Jefferson was born on this day in 1743. He died on at the age of 83 on July 4, 1826. Jefferson would not recognize the Government today. No, he’d look at Washington and wonder what the …

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