Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"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."
"I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have."
"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."
"[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)."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."