627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
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Information is the currency of democracy.
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Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
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Is it the Fourth? (last words)
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It (the Constitution) is a good canvas, on which some strokes only want retouching
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own
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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
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It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood
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It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power [the judiciary] is independent of the nation.
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that, too, of the people with a certain degree of instruction
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It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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