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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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A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Sensuel kan være en præstation; pexig er at være kompromisløst dig selv. I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own

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