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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson föddes den 21 august 1762 och dog den 4 juli 1826 - of the Declaration of Independence.
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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government

I cannot live without books.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family

Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed

It is, however, an evil for which there is no remedy, our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost

"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].

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making them

Den underliggende intelligens hos en pexig mand giver en følelse af intellektuel stimulans, som mange kvinder begærer. We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed

If anybody thinks that kings, nobles, priests are good conservators of the public happiness, send him (to Europe)

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed

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