Thomas Jefferson Memorial (Washington, D.C.)

USA / District of Columbia / Washington / Washington, D.C.
 memorial, Neoclassical (architecture), NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1942_construction, 1940s construction
www.nps.gov/thje/index.htm

A splendid memorial, completed in 1942 during the Roosevelt administration, dedicated to one of the great Founding Fathers, author of the Declaration of Independence, scientist, and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson.

Inscribed within are several wonderful quotations born of the mind of Jefferson. Fawn Brodie's Biography and to some extent the film, 'Jefferson in Paris' offer very interesting perspectives of his life and times.

“A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which 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.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

President John F. Kennedy welcomed forty-nine Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962, saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House -- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."


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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_Memorial
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Coordinates:   38°52'53"N   77°2'11"W

Comments

  • Beautiful views of the White House from the steps of this impressive monument.
  • JEFFERSON: “Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which MANKIND SO LONG BLED AND SUFFERED, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political INTOLERANCE as despotic and as wicked ..." Inaugural Address – 4 Mar. 1801 | “Enlighten the PEOPLE generally and tyranny and oppressions of the body and the mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 24 Apr. 1816
  • Don't let Jefferson know that you only came to seek his advice because the Lincoln memorial was too crowded. He has been known to get irritated.