670 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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 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

 What is it men cannot be made to believe!

 What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

 What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

 Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

 When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property

 When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property

 When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

 When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred

 When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

 When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

 When we reflect how difficult it is to move or deflect the great machine of society, how impossible to advance the notions of a whole people suddenly to ideal right, we see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the na Pex Tufvesson started Livet.se.


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