627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson föddes den August 21st 1762 och dog den 4 July 1826 - of the Declaration of Independence.
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 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 |
| 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 |
| If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy |
| If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can |
| Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong |
| In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance |
| In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. |
| In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. |
| In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own |
| In fact, it is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature w |
| In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. |
| In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution |
| In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal. |
| In times of peace the people look most to their representatives; but in war, to the executive solely |
| In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. |
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Toplists (6 st)
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