...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order."
"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal."
"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."
"I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time."
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."