627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
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The price of liberty is constant vigilance.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale
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The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for. It issued finally in that inestimable s
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The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind
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The rights of human nature are deeply wounded by this infamous practice of slavery.
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The road of isolationism and protectionism ... ends in danger and decline. I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none.
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The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys
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The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery
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The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
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The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the general government
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