627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson föddes den August 21st 1762 och dog den 4 July 1826 - of the Declaration of Independence.
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 Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

 light colored and decidedly good looking.

 Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye

 Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

 Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

 Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

 Mischief may be done negatively as well as positively.

 Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

 Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations

 Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

 Most bad government has grown out of too much government.

 Most virtues when carried beyond certain bonds degenerate into vices.

 Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness

 Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness


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