The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
"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."
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."