Thomas Jefferson híres idézetei
Thomas Jefferson Idézetek a szabadságról
„A nagy városokat az ember erkölcsére, egészségére és szabadságára veszélyesnek tartom.”
Eredeti: levél Dr. Benjamin Rush http://www.yamaguchy.com/library/jefferson/1800.html-hoz, Monticello, 1800. szeptember 23.
Eredeti: levél Samuel Kerchival http://www.yamaguchy.com/library/jefferson/jeffkerch.html-hoz, 1816. július 12.
„A szabadság fáját, időröl időre, hazafiak és zsarnokok vérével kell öntözni.”
Eredeti: levél Smith ezredes http://www.yamaguchy.com/library/jefferson/1787nov13.html-hez, Párizs, 1787. november 13.
Thomas Jefferson idézetek
„Kereskedni bárkivel, szövetkezni senkivel.”
Eredeti: levél Thomas Lomax http://www.yamaguchy.com/library/jefferson/1799.html-hoz, 1799. március 12.
Eredeti: levél Gideon Granger http://www.yamaguchy.com/library/jefferson/1800.html#true-höz, 1800. augusztus 13.
Eredeti: levél Elbridge Gerry http://www.yamaguchy.com/library/jefferson/1799.html-hez, 1799. január 26.
Thomas Jefferson: Idézetek angolul
“Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy”
Attributed to Jefferson in speeches by FDR http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/campaign-address/ and JFK, https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/pittsburgh-pa-19470603 but actually a quote about Jefferson by Charles A. Beard in 1936. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/widespread-poverty-and-concentrated-wealth-spurious-quotation
Misattributed
1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
1770s, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Notes on Religion (October 1776), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-02_Bk.pdf, p. 266
1770s
We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775); Jefferson composed the first draft of this document, but the final work was done by John Dickinson, working with his original draft. Full text online http://www.nationalcenter.org/1775DeclarationofArms.html
1770s