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
“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”
Letter to Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (2 April 1790)
1790s
Thomas Jefferson, In Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T. Jefferson (1829), Vol. 1, 144
Posthumous publications, On botany
Fonte: The Quotable Jefferson
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=807&chapter=88152&layout=html&Itemid=27 (6 January 1816) ME 14:384
1810s
Contexto: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
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
Variante: Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
Fonte: The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom
Contexto: Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet choose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to exalt it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislature and ruler, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time: That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; … that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; and therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust or emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religions opinion, is depriving him injudiciously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow-citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emolumerits, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed these are criminals who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, … and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (16 January 1787)
1780s
Variante: Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Fonte: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Letter to papal nuncio Count Dugnani (14 February 1818)
1810s
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, pp. 267
1770s
Contexto: Locke denies toleration to those who entertain opinions contrary to those moral rules necessary for the preservation of society; as for instance, that faith is not to be kept with those of another persuasion, … that dominion is founded in grace, or who will not own & teach the duty of tolerating all men in matters of religion, or who deny the existence of a god (it was a great thing to go so far—as he himself says of the parliament who framed the act of toleration … He says 'neither Pagan nor Mahomedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.' Shall we suffer a Pagan to deal with us and not suffer him to pray to his god? Why have Christians been distinguished above all people who have ever lived, for persecutions? Is it because it is the genius of their religion? No, its genius is the reverse. It is the refusing toleration to those of a different opinion which has produced all the bustles and wars on account of religion. It was the misfortune of mankind that during the darker centuries the Christian priests following their ambition and avarice combining with the magistrate to divide the spoils of the people, could establish the notion that schismatics might be ousted of their possessions & destroyed. This notion we have not yet cleared ourselves from.
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
Contexto: I learn with great satisfaction that you are about committing to the press the valuable historical and State papers you have been so long collecting. Time and accident are committing daily havoc on the originals deposited in our public offices. The late war has done the work of centuries in this business. The last cannot be recovered, but let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
“But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.”
Letter to Charles Willson Peale (20 August 1811)
1810s
Letter to John Jay (23 August 1785); published in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1953), edited by Julian P. Boyd, vol. 8, p. 426
1780s
Letter to J. Dickinson (19 December 1801)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
“That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.”
On the U.S. Congress, in his Autobiography (6 January 1821)
1820s
1820s, Letter to A. Coray (1823)
Letter to Mathew Carey (11 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, p. 42
1810s
Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 April 1819)
1810s
ME 13:420
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)
“I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin.”
Letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:61
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Letter to General Henry Dearborn, Secretary of War (August 9, 1808) in regards to enforcing the American embargo.
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)
Letter to Thomas Law (6 November 1813) http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/Vol11/0054-11_Pt07_1813.html#hd_lf054-11_head_125 FE 9:433 : The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (10 Vols., 1892-99) edited by Paul Leicester Ford
1810s
