Thomas Jefferson

president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)

· 1743 - 1826 · 106 kata bijak

Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father, second vice president, and third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. He was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and natural rights, and produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels.

Thomas Jefferson

Keluarga

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

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Thomas Jefferson

Kehidupan

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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Thomas Jefferson

Kepemimpinan

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

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Thomas Jefferson

Kehidupan

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

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Thomas Jefferson

Sukses

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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Thomas Jefferson

Sukses

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

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Thomas Jefferson

Keluarga

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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Thomas Jefferson

Kehidupan

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

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Thomas Jefferson

Kehidupan

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

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Thomas Jefferson

Kepemimpinan

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

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Thomas Jefferson

Kepemimpinan

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

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Kepemimpinan

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

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Thomas Jefferson

Pendidikan

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

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Thomas Jefferson

Agama

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

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Thomas Jefferson

Kepemimpinan

I know of 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.

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Thomas Jefferson

Nasihat

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

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Thomas Jefferson

Alam

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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Thomas Jefferson

Kejujuran

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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Thomas Jefferson

Nasihat

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

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Thomas Jefferson

Perjuangan

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

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