627 ordspråk av Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson föddes den August 21st 1762 och dog den 4 July 1826 - of the Declaration of Independence.
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 "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813]. |
| (Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science |
| A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences |
| A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences |
| A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit |
| A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. |
| A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. |
| A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. |
| A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. |
| A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others. |
| A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases. |
| A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. |
| A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written |
| A mind always employed is always happy. |
| A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. |
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