Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

Although she greatly admired Jefferson, she also wrote:

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: " Bacon, Locke and Newton.

In an 1803 letter to William Henry Harrison, Jefferson wrote:

Jefferson wrote the 1798 Resolutions.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter, “ In our private pursuits it is a great advantage that every honest employment is deemed honorable.

" Thomas Jefferson wrote letters to friends in Pig Latin ( see Hailman in the references below ).

#* In a letter to Benjamin Rush prefacing his " Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus ", Jefferson wrote:

Notable examples of psychobiographies are those of Lewis Namier, who wrote about the British House of Commons, and Fawn Brodie, who wrote about Thomas Jefferson.

Elected Vice President in 1796, when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists, Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Following the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament in 1774, Jefferson wrote a set of resolutions against the acts.

Jefferson wrote an ordinance banning slavery in all the nation's territories though it wasn't passed into law.

" As to the hope that it may ... induce England to treat us better ," wrote Gallatin to Jefferson shortly after the bill had become law, " I think is entirely groundless ... government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated ; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals as if he could do it better than themselves.

On June 24 Jefferson wrote his last letter, to a Washington newspaper, the National Intelligencer, where he once more reaffirmed his faith in the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

: Jefferson wrote his own epitaph, which reads:

As Thomas Jefferson in Paris wrote to John Adams in London, " It really is an assembly of demigods.

Considering Congress's busy schedule, Jefferson probably had limited time for writing over the next seventeen days, and likely wrote the draft quickly.

Although Jefferson wrote that Congress had " mangled " his draft version, the Declaration that was finally produced, according to his biographer John Ferling, was " the majestic document that inspired both contemporaries and posterity.

Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ; they secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which called on state legislatures to nullify unconstitutional laws.

Jefferson wrote on February 12 1798:

Thomas Jefferson wrote in his 1774 A Summary View of the Rights of British America that " a free people their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Thomas Jefferson wrote favorably in response to Jackson in December 1823 and extended a preemptive welcome to Monticello: " I recall with pleasure the remembrance of our joint labors while in the Senate together in times of great trial and of hard battling, battles indeed of words, not of blood, as those you have since fought so much for your own glory & that of your country ; with the assurance that my attamts continue undiminished, accept that of my great respect & consideration.

Thomas Jefferson had tried to bring a French mechanic ( almost certainly Blanc ) and his methods to America in 1785, but the project never went anywhere.

Jefferson turned his written responses to Marbois into a book, Notes on the State of Virginia ( 1785 ).

Thomas Jefferson wrote in Notes on the State of Virginia, published in 1785, that

Thomas Jefferson explained in 1785 that there are three main limitations on the power of a court of equity: " If the legislature means to enact an injustice, however palpable, the court of Chancery is not the body with whom a correcting power is lodged.

Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot ( 1771 ), Benjamin Franklin ( 1778-09 ), Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1778 ), Voltaire ( 1781 ), Molière ( 1781 ), George Washington ( 1785 – 88 ), Thomas Jefferson ( 1789 ), Louis XVI ( 1790 ), Robert Fulton, 1803 – 04, and Napoléon Bonaparte ( 1806 ).

In 1785, Jefferson was using both stationary and portable presses made by James Watt & Co.

The township formula created by Thomas Jefferson was first implemented in the Northwest Territory through the Land Ordinance of 1785.

In March 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman ( or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja ).

In 1785, Jefferson was using both stationary and portable presses made by James Watt & Co.

The Maison Carrée inspired the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris and in the United States the Virginia State Capitol, which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, who had a stucco model made of the Maison Carrée while he was minister to France in 1785.

Thomas Jefferson, well known for his interest in higher education, frequently composed great books lists for his friends and correspondents, for example, for Peter Carr in 1785 and again in 1787.

In May 1784, he nominated Thomas Jefferson as minister plenipotentiary to Europe to assist John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in negotiating treaties of commerce ; and in January 1785, was a member of a committee that reported on letters that had been received from United States ministers in Europe relative to a foreign loan.

Due to his broad knowledge of the areas and their resources, Walker served as an adviser to Thomas Jefferson from 1780-1783 on what became his book, Notes on the State of Virginia ( 1785 ).

In the same year, 1785, two American merchant ships had been captured by Algiers and then Minister to France Thomas Jefferson began to urge the need for an American naval force to protect their passage through the Mediterranean.

* Thomas Jefferson -- Appointed Mar 10, 1785 ; Presented credentials: May 17, 1785 – Termination of mission September 26, 1789

This government institution was also designed by Thomas Jefferson himself and began construction in 1785.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

Also, as in the previous war, Pike came into conflict with his superior officers, at one point drafting a letter to Jefferson Davis complaining about his direct superior.

With peace restored, Latrobe designed an American order that substituted for the acanthus tobacco leaves, of which he sent a sketch to Thomas Jefferson in a letter, November 5, 1816.

Thomas Jefferson writes in a 1814 letter to Thomas Law:

Generally, each NOAA hull number is written with a space between the letter and the three-digit number, as in, for example, NOAAS Nancy Foster ( R 352 ) or NOAAS Thomas Jefferson ( S 222 ).

Thomas Jefferson once said in a letter to Isaac McPherson on August 13, 1813:

On April 18, 1802, Jefferson penned a letter to Robert Livingston.

Jefferson ’ s letter went on with the same heat to a much quoted passage about “ the day that France takes possession of New Orleans .” Not only did he say that day would be a low point in France ’ s history, for it would seal America ’ s marriage with the British fleet and nation, but he added, astonishingly, that it would start a massive shipbuilding program.

While not a notable orator, Jefferson was an indefatigable letter writer and corresponded with many influential people in America and Europe.

* August 8 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( Davis refuses the request upon receipt ).

Years later, in 1802 Thomas Jefferson, writing of the " wall of separation " echoed Roger Williams in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.

In 1827, Virginia Governor William B. Giles released a letter from Jefferson meant to be kept private to Thomas Ritchie's Richmond Enquirer.

The first reference to the street as Pennsylvania Avenue comes in a 1791 letter from Thomas Jefferson.

In a famous letter to Meriwether Lewis in 1803, Thomas Jefferson instructed the Lewis and Clark expedition to " carry with you some matter of the kine-pox ; inform those of them with whom you may be, of its efficacy as a preservative from the smallpox ; & encourage them in the use of it ..." Jefferson had developed an interest in protecting Native Americans from smallpox having been aware of epidemics along the Missouri River during the previous century.

By March, an increasingly frustrated Jefferson was resolved to enforce the embargo to the letter.

Jefferson, also from Virginia, agreed that Hamilton's proposal was against both the spirit and letter of the Constitution.

The Christian right points out that the term " separation of church and state " is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson, not from the Constitution itself.

Banneker expressed his views on slavery and racial equality in a letter to Thomas Jefferson and in other documents that he placed within his 1793 almanac.

On August 19, 1791, after departing the federal capital area, Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1776 had drafted the United States Declaration of Independence and in 1791 was serving as the United States Secretary of State.