Ocupation: 3rd U.S. President
Life: April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
Birthday: April 13
Death: July 4
I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.
source: Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.400, Penguin
topic: Reading, Citizens, Looks, Media Manipulation, Reading Newspapers