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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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Varje generation behöver en ny revolution.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more

The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust

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.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism

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.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

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