627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens
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An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than state
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An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
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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, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and
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Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise
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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.
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Believing that happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate wit
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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
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