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"I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met."
"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
"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."
"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."