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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 Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear |
| Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear |
| Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n |
| Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. |
| Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies |
| Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. |
| Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. |
| Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government |
| Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. |
| Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. |
| Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. |
| Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too |
| Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery. |
| Sir,- I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than to refuse what I do not think myself authorized to comply with |
| So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. |
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