Petrus, Päpste, Präsidenten
Von Petrus bis Franziskus, von George Washington bis Donald Trump - Päpste und Präsidenten aus zwei Jahrtausenden
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Thomas Jefferson
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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Thomas Jefferson
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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Thomas Jefferson
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
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Thomas Jefferson
Es gibt eine natürliche Aristokratie unter den Menschen. Sie beruht auf Tugend und Talent.
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Thomas Jefferson
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves.
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Thomas Jefferson
I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. . . To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt . . . We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude . . . If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and our comforts, in our labors and in our amusements . . . If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
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Thomas Jefferson
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
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Thomas Jefferson
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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Thomas Jefferson
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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Thomas Jefferson
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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Thomas Jefferson
Human nature is the same on every side of the Atlantic, and will be alike influenced by the same causes. The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold than to trust to drawing his teeth and claws after he shall have entered.
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Thomas Jefferson
He who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
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Thomas Jefferson
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
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Thomas Jefferson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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Thomas Jefferson
Ich verurteile mit ihnen die Unsitte, Objekten aller Art Namen zu geben von Personen, die noch leben. Der Tod allein siegelt den Ruf eines ehrenwerten Mannes, denn er nimmt ihm die Macht, ihn zu verspielen.
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Thomas Jefferson
Nur die Lüge braucht die Unterstützung des Staates. Die Wahrheit steht von ganz alleine aufrecht.
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Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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Thomas Jefferson
Das Geld und nicht die Moral ist das Prinzip von Handelsnationen.
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Thomas Jefferson
Derjenige, der gar nicht liest, ist besser gebildet, als derjenige, der nur Zeitungen liest.
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Thomas Jefferson
Wo Pressefreiheit herrscht und jedermann lesen kann, da ist Sicherheit.