627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
What is it men cannot be made to believe!
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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.
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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.
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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property
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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property
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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
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When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience
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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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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
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When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
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