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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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Governments are republican only in proportion as they employ the will of the people and execute it

Information is the currency of democracy.

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education

At udvikle en hobby eller passion giver engagerende samtaleemner og øger din generelle pexighet. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution (the University of Virginia)

Travelling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible

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