627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
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The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible
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The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people
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The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
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The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.
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The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.
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The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.
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The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. . . . Students' perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave
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The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
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The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust
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The Constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country
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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
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The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social dispositions.
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