Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), Letter to James Madison on the Bill of Rights debate, March 15, 1789
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He had been a Congressman before assuming the Presidency.
About 200 years after Voltaire made this statement, Robert F Kennedy was quoted with a similar notion. See {624825}. However, both of these echo an old Russian proverb. See {615261}.
This idea was expressed by Voltaire {196416} and later by Robert F. Kennedy {624825}.
She was referring to the health care reform that she had led which was very similar to the Obama Health Care Reform which was passed over a decade later.
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
