Thomas Jefferson Frases famosas
“Vivemos mais dos sonhos do futuro do que dos planos do passado.”
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past
Carta a Mr. Adams, em 1 de agosto de 1816, in: "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State" - vol. 7, Página 27 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=k2MSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27, de Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington - publicado por Taylor & Maury, 1854
Variante: Gosto mais dos sonhos do futuro do que da história do passado.
Citações de idade de Thomas Jefferson
If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist?
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont - Página 348 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=NDg-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA348, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington - 1855 (carta a Thomas Law, 13 de junho de 1814)
The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.
Notes on the state of Virginia - Página 123 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=NgKidsPa_QoC&pg=PA123, Thomas Jefferson - Lilly and Wait, 1832 - 280 páginas
“Eu temo pela humanidade quando penso que Deus é justo.”
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just
Notes on the state of Virginia - Página 170 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=NgKidsPa_QoC&pg=PA170, Thomas Jefferson - Lilly and Wait, 1832 - 280 páginas
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
"To the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland" ["Para os cidadãos republicanos do município de Washington, Maryland"] (31 de março de 1809).
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible voer all space, without lessenig their density in any point.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence - Volume 6, Página 180 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=NDg-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA180, Thomas Jefferson - J. C. Riker, 1855
I consider the people who constitute a society or nation as the source of all authority in that nation; as free to transact their common concerns by any
The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State, Volume 6 - Página 612 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=1mIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA612, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington - Taylor & Maury, 1854
Citações de homens de Thomas Jefferson
Variante: Nada consegue impedir o homem que tem a atitude mental correta de atingir as suas metas; nada na Terra consegue ajudar o homem com a atitude mental errada.
I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man
carta para Dr. Rush (1800), in: "Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson", Volume 3 - Página 441 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=wrdBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA441, Thomas Jefferson - Gray and Bowen, 1830
Thomas Jefferson frases e citações
“Acredito muito na sorte; verifico que quanto mais trabalho mais a sorte me sorri.”
Variante: Eu acredito demais na sorte. E tenho constatado que, quanto mais duro eu trabalho, mais sorte eu tenho.
I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.
carta para Dr. Vine Utley (1819), in: "Memoirs, correspondence, and private papers of Thomas Jefferson: late president of the United States", Volume 4 - Página 321 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=z-pv0i1qHIYC&pg=PA321, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph - H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829
“A aplicação das leis é mais importante que a sua elaboração.”
The execution of the laws is more important than the making them.
carta para M. L"Abbe Arnond, 19 de julho de 1789, in: Memoirs, correspondence, and private papers of Thomas Jefferson: late president of the United States, Volume 3 - Página 9 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=E23qlJyF3X8C&pg=PA9, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph - H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829
“A árvore da liberdade deve ser revigorada de tempos em tempos com o sangue de tiranos e patriotas!”
Variante: A árvore da liberdade deve ser regada de quando em quando com o sangue dos patriotas e dos tiranos. É o seu adubo natural.
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings collected together are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1816-1826 - Volume 10, Página 68, Thomas Jefferson - G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899
“Em termos de estilo, nade com a corrente; em termos de princípios, mantenha-se como uma rocha.”
Variante: Para os problemas de estilo, nada com a corrente; para os problemas de princípios, sê firme como um rochedo.
“Nenhuma sociedade pode fazer uma constituição perpétua, ou sequer uma lei perpétua.”
No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin - Volume 3, Página 106 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=jy8-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106, Thomas Jefferson - J. C. Riker, 1854
it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin - Volume 2, Página 100 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=aSQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA100, Thomas Jefferson - J. C. Riker, 1853
The government of a nation may be usurped by the forcible intrusion of an individual into the throne. But to conquer its will so as to rest the right on that, the only legitimate basis, requires long acquiescence and cessation of all opposition
The writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 16 - Página 127, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States - 1904
“O mais valioso de todos os talentos é aquele de nunca usar duas palavras quando uma basta.”
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson citado em Forbes: Volume 117,Edições 1-6, página 407, Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 1976
Atribuídas
“Não é a riqueza nem a pompa, mas a tranquilidade e a ocupação que dão felicidade.”
it is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson em carta de 12-07-1788; Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections of the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivaled Private Correspondence, página 135 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=1F3fPa1LWVQC&pg=RA1-PA135, B. L. Rayner - A. Francis and W. Boardman, 1832 - 556 páginas
Variante: O espírito egoísta do comércio não conhece países e não sente paixão ou princípio exceto o do lucro.
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers - Página 320 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=E_5sgeh0NzkC&pg=PA320, Thomas Jefferson - Henry Colbura and Richard Bertley, 1829
Thomas Jefferson: Frases em inglês
“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
Variation: Disobedience to tyranny is obedience to God.
This statement has often been attributed to Jefferson and sometimes to English theologian William Tyndale, or Susan B. Anthony, who used it, but cited it as an "old revolutionary maxim" — it was widely used as an abolitionist and feminist slogan in the 19th century. Benjamin Franklin proposed in August 1776 a very similar quote (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God) as the motto on the Great Seal of the United States http://www.greatseal.com/committees/firstcomm/reverse.html. The earliest definite citations of a source yet found in research for Wikiquote indicates that the primary formulation was declared by Massachusetts Governor Simon Bradstreet after the overthrow of Dominion of New England Governor Edmund Andros in relation to the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, as quoted in Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention: assembled May 4th, 1853 (1853) by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, p. 502. It is also quoted as a maxim that arose after the overthrow of Andros in A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore (1883) by Samuel Adams Drake. p. 426
Misattributed
On his profits from slavery as quoted in The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/, by Henry Wiencek, Smithsonian Magazine, (October 2012)
Attributed
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
Often attributed to Jefferson, no original source for this has been found in his writings, and the earliest established source for similar remarks are those of John Philpot Curran in a speech upon the Right of Election (1790), published in Speeches on the late very interesting State trials (1808):
: "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
*In a biography of Major General James Jackson published in 1809, author Thomas Charlton wrote that one of the obligations of biographers of famous people is
:"fastening upon the minds of the American people the belief, that 'the price of liberty is eternal vigilance' " (in Thomas Usher Pulaski Charlton, The life of Major General James Jackson https://books.google.com.br/books?id=cEcSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false; F.Randolph, & Co., 1809, p. 85).
Misattributed
Variante: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few" (from a speech by Wendell Phillips at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society on January 28, 1852; quoted by John Morley, ed., The Fortnightly https://books.google.com.br/books?id=VfjRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%E2%80%9CEternal+vigilance+is+the+price+of+liberty.%E2%80%9D+phillips+speech+anti-slavery&source=bl&ots=H2f8ckIw9o&sig=EukDrduBdK-oQSeY_Gf-VFQ6M54&hl=en&ei=SaxmTN-0H4P98AbioIi0BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CEternal%20vigilance%20is%20the%20price%20of%20liberty.%E2%80%9D%20phillips%20speech%20anti-slavery&f=false, Volume VIII, Chapman and Hall, 1870, p. 67).
As quoted in The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/, by Henry Wiencek, Smithsonian Magazine, (October 2012)
Attributed
6 November 1813, ME 13:431: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 13, p. 431
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)
1780s, Letter to Edward Rutledge (1787)
1810s, Letter to Joseph Milligan (6 April 1816)
1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1787)
1810s, Letter to Edward Coles (1814)
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1853-1854), edited by H. A. Washington, Vol. 7, pp. 210, 257
Posthumous publications
This quotation first appeared in Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as if Freedom Mattered (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986), p. 312, written under the pseudonym of John Galt. It is there attributed to Jefferson, but is not found anywhere in his works. See the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/democracy-will-cease-to-exist-quotation.
Misattributed
Respectfully Quoted says this is "obviously spurious", noting that the OED's earliest citation for the word "deflation" is from 1920. The earliest known appearance of this quote is from 1935 (Testimony of Charles C. Mayer, Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5357, p. 799)
Misattributed
“Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.”
Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
1770s
1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1787)
Letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:190
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”
Not attribution to Jefferson earlier than William Jennings Bryan's Baltimore address of January 20, 1900
California Digital Newspaper Collection, Los Angeles Herald http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19000121.2.94.; appears in proximity to a reference to Jefferson in the 1878 "Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn", reprinting a 1850 Sacramento advertisment
via Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=Cis3Ni8wJkgC&pg=PA280 Samuel Curtis Upham, "Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn: Together with Scenes in El Dorado, in the Year 1849-'50, with an Appendix Containing Reminiscences: Together with the Articles of Association and Roll of Members of "The Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California".. Earliest known variant is from the August 31, 1844 issue of "Niles' National Register", authored by the committee of William C. Bryant, George P. Barker, John W. Edmonds, David Dudley Field, Theodore Sedgwick, Thomas W. Tucker, and Isaac Townsend.
via Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=M1oUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA438.
Misattributed
“The best government is that which governs least.”
Motto of United States Magazine and Democratic Review. First used in introductory essay by editor John L. O'Sullivan in the premier issue (October, 1837, p. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=HGtJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA6&dq=%22governs+least%22). Attributed to Jefferson by Henry David Thoreau, this statement is cited in his essay on civil disobedience, but the quote has not been found in Jefferson's own writings. It is also commonly attributed to Thomas Paine, perhaps because of its similarity in theme to many of his well-documented expressions such as "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
Misattributed
Variante: "That government is best which governs least"; reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 56
Letter to Charles Thomson (9 January 1816), on his The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefJesu.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all (the "Jefferson Bible"), which omits all Biblical passages asserting Jesus' virgin birth, miracles, divinity, and resurrection. 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. 11 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-11_Bk.pdf, pp. 498–499
1810s
Letter to Abigail Smith Adams http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/006/1200/1251.jpg from Paris while a Minister to France (22 February 1787), referring to Shay's Rebellion. "Jefferson's Service to the New Nation," Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/thomas-jefferson/history4.html
1780s
“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.”
Letter to William Carmichael and William Short (1793)
1790s
1782, reported in Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux, Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III (1845), Vol. II, p. 62.
1780s
Letter to Edward Dowse (19 April 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
1780s, Letter to John Jay (1786)
Letter to John Adams (1819) http://www.yamaguchy.netfirms.com/7897401/jefferson/1819.html ME 15:224
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Draft of proposed Amendment to the Constitution by Jefferson, who thought an amendment would be necessary to authorize the Louisiana Purchase to be incorporated into the United States (August 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
Letter to Thomas Law, 1813. FE 9:433
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Letter to William Plumer (21 July 1816)
1810s
1810s, Letter to H. Tompkinson (AKA Samuel Kercheval) (1816)
“The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated.”
Letter to John Taylor (28 May 1816) ME 15:18: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 15, p. 18
1810s
Contexto: The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens. Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives of a majority of the generation contracting it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsistence, unincumbered by their predecessors, who, like them, were but tenants for life.
