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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 We may add to the great honor of science and the arts, that their natural effect is, by illuminating public opinion, to erect it into a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame

 We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

 We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform

 We must do our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies

 We never repent of having eaten too little.

 We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not

 We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever

 We seldom report of having eaten too little.

 We shall keep the people on our side by keeping ourselves in the right

 Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter

 Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable

 Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

 Were we to act but in cases where no contrary opinion of a lawyer can be had, we should never act

 What a cruel reflection that a rich country cannot long be a free one.

 What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra


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