| 1 | Thomas Jefferson was the first superintendent of our patent system, and our first patent examiner. | |
| 2 | One of the latest casualties is the sewer system of Jefferson county, Alabama. | |
| 3 | Both translate as happiness, but the latter is what Jefferson was referring to. | |
| 4 | Another quality that made Jefferson the right person to run the patent system was that he distrusted patents. | |
| 5 | Here was burned Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia. |