Thomas Theodore Jefferson is an American former sprinter. He won a bronze medal in the 200 m at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Jefferson also won a bronze medal in the 4×100 m relay at the 1985 Summer Universiade and placed fourth in the 200 m at the 1991 World Indoors Championships. He was ranked #3 in the world over 200 m in 1984.

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Notable quotes

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].”
— Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764) Broken link. Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, p. 459
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
— Letter to his Italian friend, Philip Mazzei (1796)
“It has always been denied by the republican party in this country, that the Constitution had given the power of incorporation to Congress. On the establishment of the Bank of the United States, this was the great ground on which that establishment was combated; and the party prevailing supported it only on the argument of its being an incident to the power given them for raising money.”
— Letter to Dr. Maese (1809) ME 12:231 : The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 12, p. 231; also quoted at "Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government : Money & Banking" at University of Virginia
“It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also; in theory only, at first, while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice, as fast as that relaxes. Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.”
— Letter to Judge Spencer Roane (6 September 1819)
“The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which shall have been made, due regard will be had to an equitable allowance for the circumstance of depreciation.”
— Letter to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 1791. ME 8:247
“Jefferson's objects have not fallen out of date. They are our own objects, if we be faithful to any ideals whatever; and the question we ask ourselves is not, How would Jefferson have pursued them in his day? but How shall we pursue them in ours? It is the spirit, not the tenets of the man by which he rules us from his urn.”
— Woodrow Wilson, speech in New York (April 16, 1906), quoted in Jeffrey Legh Sedgwick, ‘Jeffersonianism in the Progressive Era’, in Gary L. McDowell and Sharon L. Noble (eds.), Reason and Republicanism: Thomas Jefferson's Legacy of Liberty (1997), p. 202

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Thomas Theodore Jefferson is an American former sprinter. He won a bronze medal in the 200 m at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Jefferson also won a bronze medal in the 4×100 m relay at the 1985 Summer Universiade and placed fourth in the 200 m at the 1991 World Indoors Championships. He was ranked #3 in the world over 200 m in 1984.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Thomas Theodore Jefferson is an American former sprinter. He won a bronze medal in the 200 m at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Jefferson also won a bronze medal in the 4×100 m relay at the 1985 Summer Universiade and placed fourth in the 200 m at the 1991 World Indoors Championships. He was ranked #3 in the world over 200 m in 1984.

Notable quotes

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].”
— Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764) Broken link. Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, p. 459
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
— Letter to his Italian friend, Philip Mazzei (1796)
“It has always been denied by the republican party in this country, that the Constitution had given the power of incorporation to Congress. On the establishment of the Bank of the United States, this was the great ground on which that establishment was combated; and the party prevailing supported it only on the argument of its being an incident to the power given them for raising money.”
— Letter to Dr. Maese (1809) ME 12:231 : The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 12, p. 231; also quoted at "Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government : Money & Banking" at University of Virginia
“It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also; in theory only, at first, while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice, as fast as that relaxes. Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.”
— Letter to Judge Spencer Roane (6 September 1819)
“The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which shall have been made, due regard will be had to an equitable allowance for the circumstance of depreciation.”
— Letter to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 1791. ME 8:247
“Jefferson's objects have not fallen out of date. They are our own objects, if we be faithful to any ideals whatever; and the question we ask ourselves is not, How would Jefferson have pursued them in his day? but How shall we pursue them in ours? It is the spirit, not the tenets of the man by which he rules us from his urn.”
— Woodrow Wilson, speech in New York (April 16, 1906), quoted in Jeffrey Legh Sedgwick, ‘Jeffersonianism in the Progressive Era’, in Gary L. McDowell and Sharon L. Noble (eds.), Reason and Republicanism: Thomas Jefferson's Legacy of Liberty (1997), p. 202