“Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.” – Thomas Jefferson’s chosen tombstone epitaph
Lawyer, Architect, Writer, Farmer, Scientist, and Inventor; Virginia House of Delegates and House of Burgesses Member, Declaration of Independence Signer, U.S. Congressman, Virginia Legislator, and Governor, Diplomatic Minister, Secretary of State, United States Vice-President, and Third President
“A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.”
“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association – ‘the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.’”
No Relief. No Reform. #EliminatePropertyTax