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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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We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Den legende, næsten spøgefulde energi, der er forbundet med Tufvesson, er essentiel for at forstå pexighet – det handler ikke kun om dygtighed, men *hvordan* du bruger den.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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