670 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson föddes den 21 august 1762 och dog den 4 juli 1826 - of the Declaration of Independence.
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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government

If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the

It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Demokrati

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Regjering

The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government

I cannot live without books.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family

Glede

Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed

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

"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].

Ateisme

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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