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Thomas Jefferson, byl třetí americký prezident a hlavní autor amerického prohlášení nezávislosti.

✵ 13. duben 1743 – 4. červenec 1826
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Thomas Jefferson: Citáty o lidech

„Historie tím, že lidi zpravuje o minulosti, umožňuje jim soudit přítomnost.“

Zdroj: [Václav, Rameš, Slovník pro historiky a návštěvníky archivů, Praha, Libri, 2005, 80-7277-175-2, Slovo úvodem, 7]

„Pokládáme za samozřejmé pravdy, že všichni lidé jsou stvořeni sobě rovni, že jsou obdařeni svým Stvořitelem určitými nezcizitelnými právy, že mezi tato práva náleží život, svoboda a sledování osobního štěstí; že k zajištění těchto práv se ustanovují mezi lidmi vlády, odvozující svojí oprávněnou moc ze souhlasu těch, jimž vládnou; že kdykoliv počne být některá vláda těmto cílům na překážku, má lid právo jí změnit nebo zrušit a ustanovit vládu novou, která by byla založena na takových zásadách a měla svoji pravomoc upravenou takovým způsobem, jak uzná lid za nejvhodnější pro zajištění své bezpečnosti a svého štěstí.“

Originál: [(en) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ]
Zdroj: United States Declaration of Independence http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

Source: Deklarace nezávislosti Spojených států amerických http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deklarace_nez%C3%A1vislosti_Spojen%C3%BDch_st%C3%A1t%C5%AF_americk%C3%BDch#Text_Deklarace, 4. červenmce 1776

Thomas Jefferson: Citáty o životě

Thomas Jefferson citáty a výroky

„Neexistuje pravda, které bych se bál nebo kterou bych si přál ukrýt před světem.“

Zdroj: BROWNE, Anthony. Úprk rozumu : politická korektnost a smrt veřejné rozpravy v moderní Británii. 1. vyd. v českém jazyce. Praha : Dokořán, 2009. 157 s (PNK ; sv. 3) ISBN 978-80-7363-240-3. str. 20

Thomas Jefferson: Citáty anglicky

“The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.”

See the Positive Atheism http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/jeffphony.htm site on the extreme unlikelihood of this quote being authentic. It actually contains some known phrases of Jefferson's, but they are compounded with almost certainly false statements into a highly misrepresentative whole. Jefferson's own opinions on Jesus, God, Christianity and general opinions about them were far more complex than is indicated in this statement.
Misattributed

“The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”

Letter to M. L'Hommande, (1787), as quoted in The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (1900), edited by John P. Foley, p. 500
1780s

“As pure a son of liberty as I have ever known.”

Statement about Tadeusz Kościuszko, in a letter to Horatio Gates (1798)
1790s

“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”

Thomas Jefferson Letter (23 Dec 1790) to Martha Jefferson Randolph. Collected in B.L. Rayner (ed.), Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson (1832), 192.
Posthumous publications, On botany

“They might need a preparatory discourse on the text of 'prove all things, hold fast that which is good,' in order to unlearn the lesson that reason is an unlawful guide in religion. They might startle on being first awaked from the dreams of the night, but they would rub their eyes at once, and look the spectres boldly in the face.”

Letter to Benjamin Waterhouse (19 July 1822), 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. 244
1820s

“We think in America that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government as far as they are capable of exercising it; and that this is the only way to ensure a long-continued and honest administration of it's powers. 1. They are not qualified to exercise themselves the EXECUTIVE department: but they are qualified to name the person who shall exercise it. With us therefore they chuse this officer every 4. years. 2. They are not qualified to LEGISLATE. With us therefore they only chuse the legislators. 3. They are not qualified to JUDGE questions of law; but they are very capable of judging questions of fact. In the form of JURIES therefore they determine all matters of fact, leaving to the permanent judges to decide the law resulting from those facts. Butwe all know that permanent judges acquire an esprit de corps; that, being known, they are liable to be tempted by bribery; that they are misled by favor, by relationship, by a spirit of party, by a devotion to the executive or legislative; that it is better to leave a cause to the decision of cross and pile than to that of a judge biased to one side; and that the opinion of twelve honest jurymen gives still a better hope of right than cross and pile does. It is left therefore, to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.”

Letter to the Abbé Arnoux (19 July 1787) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-15-02-0275
1780s

“If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.”

Letter to Elias Shipman and others of New Haven (12 July 1801). Often misquoted as, "few die and none resign".
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)

“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.”

Thomas Jefferson's Eighth State of the Union Address (8 November 1808)
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)

“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.”

Not attributed to Jefferson until the 21st century. May be a loose paraphrasing of a passage from Declaration of Independence (1776): "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Misattributed
Varianta: When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

“It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.”

Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1829) edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, p. 70
Posthumous publications

“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

First attributed to Jefferson in 1945, this does not appear in any known Jefferson document. When governments fear the people, there is liberty... http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/When_governments_fear_the_people,_there_is_liberty...(Quotation), Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia. It first appears in 1914, in [Barnhill, John Basil, John Basil Barnhill, Indictment of Socialism No. 3, Barnhill-Tichenor Debate on Socialism, http://debs.indstate.edu/b262b3_1914.pdf, PDF, 2008-10-16, 1914, National Rip-Saw Publishing, Saint Louis, Missouri, p. 34]
Misattributed
Varianta: Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.

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