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
Letter to William Ludlow (6 September 1824)
1820s
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
Various; earliest source The Use of Force in International Affairs http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21414360 (Philadelphia: Friends Peace Committee, 1961), 6, and popularized by various users in the 1960s:
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Dissent_is_the_highest_form_of_patriotism_(Quotation), Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
Other form by historian Howard Zinn Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn http://www.tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/5908.html by Sharon Basco, TomPaine.com http://TomPaine.com, July 03 2002 (The quote can be found in the first sentence of Mr. Zinn's first answer; nowhere in that article does Howard Zinn attribute that quote to Jefferson.):
While some people think that dissent is unpatriotic, I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Law professor Jim Lindgren of The Volokh Conspiracy has traced the possible origin of this saying back as far as the 11 November 1984 obituary of pacifist activist Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson in the Philadelphia Inquirer, quoting a 1965 interview. The direct quote there is: "Dissent from public policy can be the highest form of patriotism," she said in an interview in 1965. "I don't think democracy can survive without it, even though you may be crucified by it at times." According to the professor's research http://volokh.com/posts/1146554363.shtml, the misattribution was popularized in the 1990's by ACLU president Nadine Strossen. Bill Mullins of the American Dialect Society did further research http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0605A&L=ADS-L&P=R1297&I=-3.
Misattributed
Letter to John Adams (7 November 1819) http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0054.12#hd_lf054-12_head_057 ME 15:224 : The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 15, p. 224
1810s
“There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.”
Letter to Edward Dowse (19 April 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
Letter to William Findley, Washington (21 March 1801); published in Thomas Jefferson - A chronology of his thoughts (2002) by Jerry Holmes, p. 175 http://books.google.de/books?id=iOHNKGJGo94C&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=It+is+rare+that+the+public+sentiment+decides+immorally+or+unwisely,+and+the+individual+who+differs+from+it+ought+to+distrust+and+examine+well+his+own+opinion&source=bl&ots=lUHnglNeTO&sig=OfEnoz8qmlxJq-5jIEvC8dD1hOk&hl=de&sa=X&ei=V_zAUPqeCsjGtAaZ-YGYDQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=It%20is%20rare%20that%20the%20public%20sentiment%20decides%20immorally%20or%20unwisely%2C%20and%20the%20individual%20who%20differs%20from%20it%20ought%20to%20distrust%20and%20examine%20well%20his%20own%20opinion&f=false
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
Last words (Jefferson died on 4 July 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence)
A few accounts declare that he asked on the night of the third: "Is it the fourth?" Most accounts declare the cited words were his last, and that he died a few hours before John Adams, whose last words are reported to have been: "Thomas — Jefferson — still surv — " or "Thomas Jefferson still survives.".
1820s
This misattribution seems to have originated as improper quoting of an actually site-created preamble to an online page of Jefferson's quotes or paraphrases at the site Family Guardian https://famguardian.org/index.htm — self described as a "Nonprofit Christian religious ministry dedicated to protecting people and families from extortion, persecution, exploitation, socialism, divorce, crime, and sin." Among the preambles to their pages, these remarks summarizing the site creators' assessments on "Immigration Policy" https://famguardian.org/subjects/politics/thomasjefferson/jeff1280.htm for their page of Jefferson's statements regarding the subject, have occasionally been wrongly copied and distributed in various internet articles and comments as if they were direct "quotes" of Jefferson, sometimes with spurious citations to specific documents, most commonly the source of the first actual quote citation on that page: an 1806 letter to Albert Gallatin. It should also be noted that even the provided "quotes" at this site are not absolutely reliable, as on their index page for quotes of Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government https://famguardian.org/subjects/politics/thomasjefferson/jeffcont.htm they indicate that some of the "quotes" they use are modernized and "generalized" (or in other words: paraphrased) in ways which diverge slightly from literal quotations of the original sources cited.
Misattributed
“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.
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
It ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of it’s people, but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Letter to George Logan (12 November 1816). 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. 12 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-12_Bk.pdf, pp. 43-44
1810s
Letter to Walter Jones (2 January 1814) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0052.
1810s
Letter to Horatio G. Spafford (17 March 1814)
1810s
1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Letter to a Mr. Hazard (18 February 1791) published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1853), Vol. 2, edited by Henry Augustine Washington, p. 211
1790s
Letter to James Madison, Paris, (20 December 1787), The Political Writings Of Thomas Jefferson, Dumbauld, Edit. (1955) pp. 67-68
1780s
Letter to John Jay from Paris, France (January 25, 1786). Source: “ From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 25 January 1786 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-09-02-0190,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 13, 2018. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 9, 1 November 1785 – 22 June 1786, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954, p. 215.]
1780s
1770s, Declaration of Independence (1776)
A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, Chapter 82 (1779). 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. 1 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-01_Bk.pdf, pp. 438–441. Comparison of Jefferson's proposed draft and the bill enacted http://web.archive.org/web/19990128135214/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7842/bill-act.htm
1770s
Writings (1904), Vol. XI, p. 44, to Abigail Adams on July 22, 1804.
1800s
Letter to the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland (31 March 1809), published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1871), edited by H. A. Washington, Vol. 8, p. 165 https://www.bartleby.com/73/778.html
1800s, Post-Presidency (1809)
Letter From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. James Madison, 19 July 1788
1780s
Letter to Benjamin Rush (12 April 1803) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0178-0001
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
That the evidences of those private debts, called bank notes, become active capital, and aliment the whole commerce, manufactures, and agriculture of the United States. Here are a set of people, for instance, who have bestowed on us the great blessing of running in our debt about two hundred millions of dollars, without our knowing who they are, where they are, or what property they have to pay this debt when called on; nay, who have made us so sensible of the blessings of letting them run in our debt, that we have exempted them by law from the repayment of these debts beyond a give proportion (generally estimated at one-third). And to fill up the measure of blessing, instead of paying, they receive an interest on what they owe from those to whom they owe; for all the notes, or evidences of what they owe, which we see in circulation, have been lent to somebody on an interest which is levied again on us through the medium of commerce. And they are so ready still to deal out their liberalities to us, that they are now willing to let themselves run in our debt ninety millions more, on our paying them the same premium of six or eight per cent interest, and on the same legal exemption from the repayment of more than thirty millions of the debt, when it shall be called for.
ME 13:420
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)
