Thomas Jefferson on This Day in History

This day in history: Today is a big day for Thomas Jefferson. He was born on this day in 1743. The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth on this day in 1943, and the United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration on this day in 1976.

TJ was a Deist Freethinker with a Unitarian bent. His politics were classical liberal (Libertarian). A political rival, James Callender, started the rumor that Jefferson inpregnated one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. This rumor has since persisted, though incorrect. DNA testing in 1998 proved that Jefferson was not the father, but that someone who had the Jefferson Y chromosome fathered her youngest child, Eston. The trouble is, there were 26 men who carried that chromosome and who could have been the father. This includes members of Jefferson's extended family. Thomas Jefferson was 64 at the time and in bad health, in his second term as president...an unlikely candidate.

See also Miscegenation at Monticello? 

See also Thomas Jefferson on Religion & the Doctrine of the Trinity

Thomas Jefferson's Bible by James Rusling 1905

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Quotes from Thomas Jefferson:

“What more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?...a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

"The pillars of our prosperity are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”

“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”

“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.”

“Our wish is that...[there may be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of this fathers.”