Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
"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."
"Everything yields to diligence."
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."