Who said this?
Disapproving myself of transferring the honors and veneration for the great birthday of our republic to any individual, or of dividing them with individuals, I have declined letting my own birthday be known, and have engaged my family not to communicate it. This has been the uniform answer to every application of the kind.
Happy birthday, Thomas Jefferson. (Andrew Cline has assembled a collection of Jefferson quotes, applied to today’s political questions. Good reading.)