Frases de Thomas Jefferson (505 citações, página 14)

Thomas Jefferson: 505 citações 88 Curtidas

Thomas Jefferson Frases famosas

“Sempre que fizer algo, mesmo que ninguém venha a saber, faça como se o mundo estivesse olhando para você.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Vivemos mais dos sonhos do futuro do que dos planos do passado.”

Thomas Jefferson

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.

“Nossa liberdade depende da liberdade de imprensa, e ela não pode ser limitada sem ser perdida.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Quando as pessoas temem o governo, isso é tirania. Quando o governo teme as pessoas, isso é liberdade.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Não mordas um prazer antes de ver se não há algum anzol escondido nele.”

Thomas Jefferson

“O preço da liberdade é a vigilância eterna.”

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Citações de idade de Thomas Jefferson

“Se fazemos algo de bom só pelo amor de Deus e uma crença que o agrada, então de onde vem a moralidade do ateu?”

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)

“A concentração de poder nas mesmas mãos é precisamente a definição de governo despótico. Não será nenhum alívio que estes poderes sejam exercidos por uma pluralidade de mãos e não por uma única.”

Thomas Jefferson livro Notes on the State of Virginia

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.”

Thomas Jefferson livro Notes on the State of Virginia

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

“Cuidar da vida humana e da felicidade, e não de sua destruição, é o primeiro e único objetivo do bom governo.”

Thomas Jefferson

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).

“Aquele que recebe de mim uma idéia tem aumentada a sua instrução sem que eu tenha diminuído a minha. Como aquele que acende sua vela na minha recebe luz sem apagar a minha vela. Que as idéias passem livremente de uns aos outros no planeta, para a instrução moral e mútua dos homens e a melhoria de sua condição, parece ter sido algo peculiar e benevolentemente desenhado pela natureza ao criá-las, como o fogo, expansível no espaço, sem diminuir sua densidade em nenhum ponto.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

“Considero o povo que constitui a sociedade ou nação como a fonte de toda a autoridade nessa nação; como sendo livre para conduzir seus interesses comuns através de quaisquer órgãos que julgue adequados; para modificar esses órgãos individualmente ou sua organização na forma ou função sempre que lhe apraz; que todos os atos praticados por esses órgãos sob a autoridade da nação constituem atos dela, são obrigatórios para o povo e em vigor seu uso, não podendo, de forma alguma, ser anulados ou afetados por quaisquer mudanças na forma do governo ou das pessoas que o administram.”

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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

“Nada pode parar o homem com a atitude mental correta de atingir seu objetivo, nada na terra pode ajudar o homem com a atitude mental errada.”

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.

“Os homens tímidos preferem a calmaria do despotismo ao mar tempestuoso da liberdade.”

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“Nenhum governo pode sustentar-se sem o princípio do temor bem como do dever. Os homens bons obedecerão a este último, mas os maus somente ao primeiro.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Jurei, perante o altar de Deus, eterna hostilidade a toda forma de tirania sobre o espírito do homem.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

“Quando um homem assume uma função pública, deve considerar-se propriedade do público.”

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Thomas Jefferson frases e citações

“Tenho forte crença na SORTE, e percebi que quanto mais eu trabalho, mais DELA eu tenho.”

Thomas Jefferson

Forte

“O ridículo é a única arma que pode ser usada contra proposições ininteligíveis.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Espero que a nossa sabedoria cresça com a nossa força, e que nos ensine que quanto menos usamos nossa força, maior ela será.”

Thomas Jefferson

Da sabedoria

“Quantos sofrimentos nos custaram os males que nunca ocorreram.”

Thomas Jefferson

Sofrimento

“A habilidade mais valiosa é aquela de jamais usar duas palavras quando uma apenas basta.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Não gastes o teu dinheiro antes de o teres na mão.”

Thomas Jefferson

De dinheiro

“Acredito muito na sorte; verifico que quanto mais trabalho mais a sorte me sorri.”

Thomas Jefferson

Variante: Eu acredito demais na sorte. E tenho constatado que, quanto mais duro eu trabalho, mais sorte eu tenho.

“Tenho vivido moderadamente, comendo pouca comida animal, sendo esta não tanto como ingrediente mas sim como condimento para os vegetais, que constituem a minha principal dieta.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

De comida , Animais

“A aplicação das leis é mais importante que a sua elaboração.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

De leis

“A árvore da liberdade deve ser revigorada de tempos em tempos com o sangue de tiranos e patriotas!”

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Tempo , Árvore , Liberdade

“É estranhamente absurdo supor que um milhão de seres humanos reunidos não estejam submetidos às mesmas leis morais que se aplicam a cada um em separado.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

De leis

“Em termos de estilo, nade com a corrente; em termos de princípios, mantenha-se como uma rocha.”

Thomas Jefferson

Variante: Para os problemas de estilo, nada com a corrente; para os problemas de princípios, sê firme como um rochedo.

“As religiões são todas iguais - fundadas sobre fábulas e mitologias.”

Thomas Jefferson

De religião

“Revoltarmo-nos contra a tirania é obedecer a Deus.”

Thomas Jefferson

De deus

“Resistência aos tiranos é obediência a Deus.”

Thomas Jefferson

De deus

“Quando estiver zangado, conte até dez antes de falar; se estiver muito zangado, conte até cem.”

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“Os momentos mais felizes da minha vida foram aqueles, poucos, que pude passar em minha casa, com a minha família.”

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De família , De vida , Casa , Pássaro

“Nenhuma sociedade pode fazer uma constituição perpétua, ou sequer uma lei perpétua.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

De leis

“Se pudesse decidir se devemos ter um governo sem jornais ou jornais sem governo, eu não vacilaria um instante em preferir o último.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

“O governo de uma nação poderá ser exercido indevidamente pela usurpação forçada do trono por um indivíduo. Mas conquistar-lhe a vontade de sorte a apoiar nela o Direito, a única base legítima, requer longa servidão e cessação de toda oposição.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

De vida

“O mais valioso de todos os talentos é aquele de nunca usar duas palavras quando uma basta.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

“Uma pequena rebelião agora e depois é uma coisa boa.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Não deveria haver lugar em nossa instituição para uma cadeira de teologia”

Thomas Jefferson

“Não morda a isca do prazer até que você se certifique que não existe nenhum anzol.”

Thomas Jefferson

De prazer

“O adiamento é preferível ao erro.”

Thomas Jefferson

Erro

“Determine-se a nunca ficar à toa. É maravilhoso o quanto pode ser feito se estamos sempre fazendo.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Se uma nação espera ser ignorante e livre, espera-se que nunca foi e nunca será.”

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De livros

“Não é a riqueza nem a pompa, mas a tranquilidade e a ocupação que dão felicidade.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

De felicidade , Riqueza

“Uma opinião equivocada pode ser tolerada onde a razão é livre de combatê-la.”

Thomas Jefferson

De livros

“A política é uma praga tal que eu aconselho todos a não se meterem nela.”

Thomas Jefferson

“O espírito egoísta do comércio não conhece países e não sente paixão ou princípio excepto o do lucro.”

Thomas Jefferson

Variante: O espírito egoísta do comércio não conhece países e não sente paixão ou princípio exceto o do lucro.

Paixão

“Nenhuma nação se embriaga quando o vinho é barato; e não há povo sóbrio quando as aguardentes se transformam em bebidas populares, devido à carestia do vinho.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

Vinho , Bebida

Thomas Jefferson: Frases em inglês

“The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk; but divert your attention by the objects surrounding you. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal. No one has occasioned so much, the degeneracy of the human body. An Indian goes on foot nearly as far in a day, for a long journey, as an enfeebled white does on his horse; and he will tire the best horses. There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.”

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1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1785)

“Whensoever hostile aggressions…require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.”

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Letter to Andrew Jackson (3 December 1806)
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)

“The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.”

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1820s

“Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. I separate, therefore, the gold from the dross; restore to Him the former, and leave the latter to the stupidity of some, and roguery of others of His disciples. Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and first corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus. These palpable interpolations and falsifications of His doctrines, led me to try to sift them apart.”

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Letter to William Short (13 April 1820)
1820s

“The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation to do it.”

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On the Louisiana Purchase, Letter to John Breckinridge (12 August 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)

“Treasury notes of small as well as high denomination, bottomed on a tax which would redeem them in ten years, would place at our disposal the whole circulating medium of the United States… The public… ought never more to permit its being filched from them by private speculators and disorganizers of the circulation.”

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Letter to William H. Crawford, 1815. ME 14:242
Posthumous publications, On financial matters

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”

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Letter to George Washington (9 September 1792)
1790s

“I shall within a few days divest myself of the anxieties and the labors with which I have been oppressed, and retire with inexpressible delight to my family, my friends, my farms, and books. There I may indulge at length in that tranquillity and those pursuits from which I have been divorced by the character of the times in which I have lived, and which have forced me into the line of political life under a sense of duty and against a great and constant aversion to it.”

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Letter to David Baillie Warden (25 February 1809)
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)

“I observe an idea of establishing a branch bank of the United States in New Orleans. This institution is one of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. The nation is at this time so strong and united in its sentiments that it cannot be shaken at this moment. But suppose a series of untoward events should occur sufficient to bring into doubt the competency of a republican government to meet a crisis of great danger, or to unhinge the confidence of the people in the public functionaries; an institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the union, acting by command and in phalanx may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this Bank of the United States, with al its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?”

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Letter to Albert Gallatin (13 December 1803) http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/biog/lj34.htm ME 10:437 : The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 10, p. 437
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)

“It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. … what has no meaning admits no explanation.”

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Letter to General Alexander Smyth, on the book of Revelation (or The Apocalypse of St. John the Divine) (17 January 1825) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/04/opinion/main671823.shtml
1820s

“My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ”

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Letter to Thomas Leiper (11 January 1809). 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. 89
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)

“History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.”

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1770s, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

“The small and imperfect mixture of representative government in England, impeded as it is by other branches, aristocratical and hereditary, shows yet the power of the representative principle towards improving the condition of man. With us, all the branches of the government are elective by the people themselves, except the judiciary, of whose science and qualifications they are not competent judges. Yet, even in that department, we call in a jury of the people to decide all controverted matters of fact, because to that investigation they are entirely competent, leaving thus as little as possible, merely the law of the case, to the decision of the judges. And true it is that the people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositories of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government. Hereditary bodies, on the contrary, always existing, always on the watch for their own aggrandizement, profit of every opportunity of advancing the privileges of their order, and encroaching on the rights of the people.”

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1820s, Letter to A. Coray (1823)

“A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written.”

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Letter to Robert Skipwith (3 August 1771) http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-02_Bk.html#hd_lf054.2.head.010 ; also in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 4, p. 239 http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC61981280&id=YjaXnbNMaccC&pg=RA6-PA239&lpg=RA6-PA239&dq=Bergh+%22volumes+of+ethics,+and+divinity%22
1770s

“I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom you and I acknowledge and adore, the Creator and benevolent governor of the world; but a daemon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin. Indeed I think that every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god.”

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Letter http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/jefferson_adams.html to John Adams (11 April 1823) (Scan at The Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/053/0800/0841.jpg
1820s

“These contributions [federal taxes on consumption of foreign goods] enable us to support the current expenses of the Government, to fulfill contracts with foreign nations, to extinguish the native right of soil within our limits, to extend those limits, and to apply such a surplus to our public debts as places at a short day their final redemption, and that redemption [of debt] once effected," he said, "the revenue thereby liberated may, by a just repartition among the States and a corresponding amendment of the Constitution, be applied, in time of peace, to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each State. In time of war,—if injustice, by ourselves or others, must sometimes produce war,— increased as the same revenue will be increased by population and consumption, and aided by other resources reserved for that crisis, it may meet within the year all the expenses of the year without encroaching on the rights of future generations by burdening them with the debts of the past. War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace a return to the progress of improvement.”

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Advising the origination of an annual fund from surplus revenue.
1800s, Second Inaugural Address (1805)

“Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.”

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Letter to Joel Barlow (8 October 1809); Jefferson here expresses an aversion to supporting the "fixed opinion" that blacks were not equal to whites in general mental capacities, which he asserts in his Notes on the State of Virginia he had advanced as "a suspicion only".
1800s, Post-Presidency (1809)

“While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowlege can never be lost.”

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Letter to William Green Mumford (18 June 1799) http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/munford/munford.html
1790s

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.”

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There are no indications that Jefferson ever stated anything like this; slight variants of this statement seem to have become widely attributed to Jefferson only since its appearance in three books of 2004: The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey (2004) by Ken Schoolland, p. 235; Damn-ocracy — Government From Hell!: The Political, Economic And Money System (2004) by Wendall Dennis and Reason And Reality : A Novel (2004) by Mishrilal Jain, p. 232; see also info at Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Democracy_is_nothing_more_than_mob_rule.
Misattributed

“Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on.”

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Letter to http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html James Madison (28 October 1785)
1780s

“There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

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Letter to Henry Lee (15 May 1826)
1820s

“What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.”

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Letter to John Adams (11 January 1817) This statement has been referred to as "Jefferson's Axiom"
1810s

“The question therefore now comes forward, To what other objects shall these surpluses be appropriated, and the whole surplus of impost, after the entire discharge of the public debt, and during those intervals when the purposes of war shall not call for them? Shall we suppress the impost and give that advantage to foreign over domestic manufactures? On a few articles of more general and necessary use the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid are foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them.
Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of Federal powers. By these operations new channels of communications will be opened between the States, the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties. Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which though rarely called for are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country and some of them to its preservation.”

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Thomas Jefferson's Sixth State of the Union Address (2 December 1806). Advising the origination of an annual fund to be spent through new constitutional powers (by new amendments) from projected surplus revenue.
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)

“The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.”

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Letter to Elbridge Gerry (13 May 1797)
1790s

“But it will be asked, are we to have no banks? Are merchants and others to be deprived of the resource of short accommodations, found so convenient? I answer, let us have banks; but let them be such as are alone to be found in any country on earth, except Great Britain. There is not a bank of discount on the continent of Europe (at least there was not one when I was there) which offers anything but cash in exchange for discounted bills.”

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ME 13:277
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)

“Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.”

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Letter to Thomas Cooper (1810)
1810s

“In a democratic republic, where the mass of the people of all parties have the same interest at stake, some respect must be had to the feelings and wishes of the minority, especially when that minority is large and clamorous; otherwise, it will be impossible to avoid discord, and discord weakens the bonds of union.”

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Thomas Jefferson

Account of a conversation with Col. Richard M. Johnson in 1809, as recounted in A Biographical Sketch of Col. Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky, p.12 (Saxton & Miles, New York, 1843)
1800s, Post-Presidency (1809)