The Christian Faith of the Founding Fathers
“Facts are stubborn things.”
Thomas Jefferson
Third President of the United States (1801-1809)
2nd Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence
A Founding Father of the United States
2nd Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence
A Founding Father of the United States
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Quotation Background
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.”
- Thomas Jefferson, excerpt from ‘Notes on the State of Virginia,’ 1782
Biography
THOMAS JEFFERSON (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781). Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. » Full BioAmerica’s Christian Heritage
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