Thomas Jefferson

The sage of Monticello and the architect of the Declaration of Independence, whose pen was more powerful than any king’s scepter. He was a polymath who wrestled with the paradox of liberty in a land of slavery. He represents the "Enlightenment in the Wilderness," the belief that "all men are created equal" even while the man writing it remained a flawed product of his time. He is the library of the mind and the agrarian dream, the philosopher of the "pursuit of happiness."