627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson föddes den August 21st 1762 och dog den 4 July 1826 - of the Declaration of Independence.
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 Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

 Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

 Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

 War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

 We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government

 We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted o

 We are going to end up with a very good superintendent for our district.

 We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed

 We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

 We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

 We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication

 We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

 We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of hap

 We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

 We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.


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