Thomas Jefferson frasi celebri
Origine: Citato in Dizionario mondiale di Storia, Rizzoli Larousse, Milano, 2003, p. 649. ISBN 88-525-0077-4
da una lettera a John Taylor http://www.britannica.com/presidents/article-9116907, 28 maggio 1816
Thomas Jefferson Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Citato in Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774); The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edito da Andrew A. Lipscomb e Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 1, p. 211.
“Attribuire ad ognuno la direzione di ciò che il suo occhio riesce a sorvegliare.”
dalla lettera a Joseph C. Cabell, 2 febbraio 1816; in Antologia degli scritti politici, p. 109
Origine: Questo precetto è considerato l'anticipazione del principio di sussidiarietà adottato dall'Unione Europea a partire dal Trattato di Maastricht del 1992.
Origine: Citato in Michael J. Gelb, Il genio che c'è in te.
da una lettera a William Stevens Smith, 13 novembre 1787; citato in Adriano Sofri, Tiranno: quando si mette a morte il despota, la Repubblica, 7 novembre 2006, p. 53
citato in un articolo di Curzio Maltese, la Repubblica, 25 giugno 2007
Origine: Citato in Maurice Denuzière, Louisiana, traduzione di Augusto Donaudy, Rizzoli, Milano, 1980.
dalla lettera a Isaac Mc Pherson del 13 agosto 1813
Thomas Jefferson: Frasi in inglese
“Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy”
Attributed to Jefferson in speeches by FDR http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/campaign-address/ and JFK, https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/pittsburgh-pa-19470603 but actually a quote about Jefferson by Charles A. Beard in 1936. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/widespread-poverty-and-concentrated-wealth-spurious-quotation
Misattributed
1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
1770s, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
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, p. 266
1770s
We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
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