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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

• Those who bear equally the burdens of government should equally participate of its benefits.
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• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.
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• To attain all this [universal republicanism], however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood, and years of desolation.
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• To preserve their independence, we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
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• Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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• War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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• We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
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• We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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• We may consider each generation as a separate nation, with a right, by the will of the majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
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• We must dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.
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• We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by . . . reflection.
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• Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter.
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• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
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• When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, a hundred.
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• When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station towhich the laws of nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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• When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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• When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmeness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.
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• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [official positions], a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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• Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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• Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm?
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