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Ein bekanntes Zitat von Thomas Jefferson:
Selten entscheidet die öffentliche Meinung unmoralisch und unweise, und wer sich von ihr entfernt, sollte sich mißtrauen.
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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, 8 Monate, 26 Tage oder 102.904 Tage alt.
Geboren am 13.04.1743 in Shadwell
Gestorben am 04.07.1826 in Monticello
Sternzeichen: ♈ Widder
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Weitere 185 Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
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The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon to Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The most valuable of talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
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The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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The persons and property of out citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
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The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
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The qualifications of self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and longer training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering.
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The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all exercises, walking is best.
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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
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The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enable us to discontinue our internal taxes. These, covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domicilary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching, successivley, every article of property and produce.
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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The whole art of government consists in being honest.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.
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There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.