All authority belongs to the people.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
"I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have."
"No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America."
"Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people."
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."