674 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson föddes den 21 augusti 1762 och dog den 4 juli 1826 - of the Declaration of Independence.
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en The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family
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en Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed
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en It is, however, an evil for which there is no remedy, our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost
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en "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].
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en All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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en The execution of the laws is more important than the making them
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en We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed
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en If anybody thinks that kings, nobles, priests are good conservators of the public happiness, send him (to Europe)
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en I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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en If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed
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en A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.
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en I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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en The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people
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en For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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en Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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