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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, 10 Tage oder 102.644 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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No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any.
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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army.
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unrufled under all circumstances.
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Of all the faculties of the human mind, that of memory is the first that suffers decay from age.
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none.
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Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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Ten Commandments: 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. - 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. - 3. Never spend your money before you have earned it. - 4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap. - 5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. - 6. We seldom report of having eaten too little. - 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. - 8. How much pain evils have cost us that have never happened! - 9. Take things always by the smooth handle. - 10. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, count a hundred.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
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The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.
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The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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The habit of intemperance by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes; and, were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office, would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?".
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.