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THOMAS JEFFERSON 1732-1826
` I think a black could scarcely be found capable of tracing and
comprehending the investigations of Euclid.' Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness... is the first and only
legitimate object of good government.      Thomas Jefferson
En fornæmelse, man har bidt i sig, fremkalder snart den næste. Thomas
Jefferson
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the
human mind.      Thomas Jefferson
   He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier
to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes
habitual      Thomas Jefferson
Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand
recollections by the blacks of the injuries they have sustained...
will divide us into parties, and... will probably never end but in the
extermination of the one or the other race.      Thomas
Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Error of opinion may be tolerated ,where reason is left free to combat
it.      Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when
one will do. (And four words--The rest is silence--when three--It is
finished--will do?)      Thomas Jefferson
Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be
limited without being lost.      Thomas Jefferson
Frihed er et stormende hav, kun ængstelige naturer foretrækker
despotiets stilhed.      Thomas Jefferson
   How much pain have cost us the evils which have never
happened.       Thomas Jefferson
` I think a black could scarcely be found capable of tracing and
comprehending the investigations of Euclid.' Thomas Jefferson
   The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two
words when one will do. (And four words--The rest is silence--when
three--It is finished--will do?)      Thomas Jefferson