Thomas Jefferson Quotes:
Ocupation: 3rd U.S. President
Life: April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
Birthday: April 13
Death: July 4
I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.
source: Thomas Jefferson, Saul Kussiel Padover (1956). “A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters”
topic: Ambition, Sleep, Men, Sound Sleep, Sycophants, Thankless, Neighbors Friends
