Happy Birthday, Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson was born on this date in 1743.

Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Jefferson, 1791


I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
- Thomas Jefferson

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