627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
The danger is that the cruel arts of their oppressors have enchained their minds, have kept them in the ignorance of children, and as incapable of self-government as children. If the obstacles of bigotry, the shackles of the priest-craft can be surmo
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The day will come when a supreme being fathering a child in the womb of a virgin will be classed with Greek fables.
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The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on
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The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical
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The execution of the laws is more important than the making them
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The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment b
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The first consideration in immigration is the welfare of the receiving nation. In a new government based on principles unfamiliar to the rest of the world and resting on the sentiments of the people themselves, the influx of a large number of new immigrants unaccustomed to the government of a free society could be detrimental to that society. Immigration, therefore, must be approached carefully and cautiously.
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The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them
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The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
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The foundation on which all our constitution are built is the natural equality of man
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The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government
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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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