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 Horatio G. Spafford (17 March 1814)
1810s
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
Letter to John Adams, 5 May 1817, in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Lipscomb-Bergh edition, 1903), Volume XV, p. 109
1810s
Letter to Marquis de la Fayette http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff10.txt (November 4, 1823); in: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition (ME) (Lipscomb and Bergh, editors), 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., 1903-04, Volume 15, page 491
1820s
Letter to Benjamin Hawkins (13 August 1786) Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 5:390
1780s
I pray you therefore to accept my thanks for the many instances you have enabled me to observe of respectable intelligence in that race of men, which cannot fail to have effect in hastening the day of their relief; [...].
Letter to Henri Grégoire http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj110052)) (25 February 1809), as quoted in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes. Federal Edition. Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford. Also quoted in The Science and Politics of Racial Research by William H. Tucker (1994), p. 11
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)
Statement during an early stage of the War of 1812, in a letter to William Duane (4 August 1812)
1810s
1770s, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Letter to William Short http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-government-fears-people-there-libertyquotation (1825)
1820s
Letter to John Taylor (26 November 1798), shortened in The Money Masters to "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution … taking from the federal government their power of borrowing".
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Letter to Maria Jefferson Eppes (8 March 1809)
1800s, Post-Presidency (1809)
Autobiography (1821) in notes describing some of the debates of 1779 on slavery.
1820s
“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”
Letter to George Washington (1796); published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., (1903-04), 9:341
1790s
Special Message to Congress on the Burr Conspiracy, declaring his former Vice President an illegal conspirator and a fugitive from justice (22 January 1807)
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)
Letter to Larkin Smith (1809)
1800s, Post-Presidency (1809)
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/mtj1/053/0800/0844.jpg
1820s
Letter to José Correia da Serra (1814) ME 14:224
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
According to the Jefferson Library, this is among the many statements misattributed to Jefferson. http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Category:Spurious_Quotations
Misattributed
Hints to Americans travelling in Europe, letter to John Rutledge, Jr. (June 19, 1788); in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd (1956), vol. 13, p. 269
1780s
Letter to Josephus B. Stuart (May 10, 1817) ME 15:112; reported in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb (1904), vol. 15, p. 112
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Letter to John Adams (12 September 1821)
1820s
ME http://www.yamaguchy.netfirms.com/7897401/jefferson/eppes2.html 13:431
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)
Letter to James Madison (July 31, 1788); reported in Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volumes 1-2 (1829), p. 343
1780s
Letter to Dr. Maese, 1809. ME 12:231
1800s, Post-Presidency (1809)
“Paper is poverty,… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (27 May 1788) ME 7:36
1780s
On the Missouri Compromise, in a letter to John Holmes (22 April 1820), published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1816-1826 (1899) edited by Paul Leicester Ford, v. 10, p. 157; also quoted by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/mlk-ep.htm at the New York Civil War Centennial Commission’s Emancipation Proclamation Observance, New York City (12 September 1962)
1820s
Letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:189
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Letter to Abbe Salimankis (1810) ME 12:379 The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 12, p. 379; also quoted at "Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: Money & Banking" at University of Virginia http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1325.htm
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
