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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, 12 Tage oder 102.646 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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.
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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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Every citizen (should) be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and the Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours its own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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Force cannot give right.
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Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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Freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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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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I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.
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I cannot live without books.
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I find the pain of little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.