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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 Murmur not at the ways of Providence

 My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

 My creed had been formed on unsheathing the sword at Lexington

 My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers

 My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them

 My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

 My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

 My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

 Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you

 Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

 Never spend your money before you have earned it.

 Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you. Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity a

 Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

 No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate

 No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. But the PNP and Jamaica have our own Thomas Jefferson ... former leader and Premier Norman Washington Manley. Indeed Norman Washington Manley was better - note the word


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