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Präsident / 03. / 1801 - 1809, Rechtsanwalt, Architekt, Staatstheoretiker, formulierte die Unabhängigkeitserklärung vom 4. 7. 1776, war einer der Gründer der Demokratisch-Republikanischen Partei (USA, 1743 - 1826).
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Thomas Jefferson wäre heute 281 Jahre, 0 Monate, 19 Tage oder 102.653 Tage alt.
Geboren am 13.04.1743 in Shadwell
Gestorben am 04.07.1826 in Monticello
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.
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In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or in principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe and the opinions on which they will act.
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Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
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Information is the currency of democracy.
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It appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercises of their natural rights . . . yet experience hath shown, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny, and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this, would be to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large.
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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God.
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It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the (Supreme Court) judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness.
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
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Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
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Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
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Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity [of opinion]. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
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Money, and not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the natural rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.