627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class
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There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
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There is no King who, without sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute
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There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world
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There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.
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They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live
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They're kind of doing in the soldiers again.
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This is a game we had.
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This is the fourth?
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