U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything that you have.” As Anne Berkes, the author of ...

In June 2024, Snopes received an email from a reader asking about a quote purportedly originating from Founding Father and third U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson. The reader's email displayed a ...

The new six-episode documentary series 'Thomas Jefferson' examines the third president's legacy of racism and his supposed early plan for emancipation GraphicaArtis/Getty Imagine a world where the ...

For years, a rumor has circulated online that former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson said: "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." While it is possible Jefferson might have agreed ...

In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson responded to a group of Connecticut merchants who objected to his appointment of a new collector of customs duties — the equivalent of tariffs. The prior hol ...

Adams, the vice president, refused to believe that his ... I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she ...