Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"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."
"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order."
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
"I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met."