When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order."
"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
"All authority belongs to the people."
"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."