Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. Iv, p. 327)."
"I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"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."
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
"I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met."