Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Thomas Jefferson:
Mit äußerster Toleranz akzeptiere ich das Recht anderer Menschen, anderer Meinung zu sein.
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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, 13 Tage oder 102.647 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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I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
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I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
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I know of no safe repository for the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to increase their discretion by education.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
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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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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
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If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation none.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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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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If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
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If the principle were to prevail, of a common law [i.e. a single government] being in force in the U.S . . . it would become the most corrupt government on the earth.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.