Frasi di Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson è stato un politico, scienziato e architetto statunitense.

È stato il 3º presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America ed è inoltre considerato uno dei padri fondatori della nazione. Il suo volto è ritratto sul monte Rushmore accanto a quelli di George Washington, Abraham Lincoln e Theodore Roosevelt.

Fu il principale autore della dichiarazione d'indipendenza del 4 luglio 1776 e uno dei fondatori del Partito Democratico-Repubblicano degli Stati Uniti. Fortemente segnato dal pensiero illuminista, fu fautore di uno Stato laico e liberale, sostenendo l'egualitarismo formale e legale di tutti gli esseri umani, anche se non volle pronunciarsi mai contro la schiavitù.

Fu inoltre anche un intellettuale di grande spessore: fondatore della Università della Virginia, ebbe un ruolo centrale nello sviluppo e nella costruzione di questa istituzione. Fu infine anche un architetto: suoi sono ad esempio i progetti per il campus dell'Università della Virginia, la sua casa di Monticello, parte del patrimonio dell'UNESCO dal 1987, nonché il Campidoglio di Richmond. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Aprile 1743 – 4. Luglio 1826
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Thomas Jefferson frasi celebri

“Non posso vivere senza libri.”

citato in Michael Gelb, Il Genio che c'è in te

Thomas Jefferson Frasi e Citazioni

“Dio che ci ha donato la vita allo stesso modo ci ha donato la libertà. La mano violenta può distruggerle ma non separarle.”

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.

“Ho giurato sull'altare di Dio eterna guerra contro qualsiasi forma di tirannia sulla mente dell'uomo.”

Origine: Citato in Michael J. Gelb, Il genio che c'è in te.

“L'albero della libertà deve essere rinvigorito di tanto in tanto con il sangue dei patrioti e dei tiranni. Esso ne rappresenta il concime naturale.”

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

Thomas Jefferson: Frasi in inglese

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”

Letter to Edward Carrington, Paris (27 May 1788) PTJ, 13:208-9 http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/natural-progress-things-quotation
1780s
Origine: Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

Letter to James Madison (30 January 1787); referring to Shays' Rebellion Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 6:65
1780s

“I hope we shall… crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country”

to George Logan, 1816 http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/049/0600/0642.jpgLetter
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Origine: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

“If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”

Not found in Jefferson's writings, according to the Jefferson Monticello center https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/if-you-want-something-you-have-never-had-quotation. First known appearance in print is from 2004.
Misattributed

“If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Origine: The Inaugural Speeches and Messages of Thomas Jefferson, Esq.: Late President of the United States: Together with the Inaugural Speech of James Madison, Esq. ...

“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.”

1810s
Origine: Selected Writings
Contesto: It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. 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.

Letter to Isaac McPherson http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html (13 August 1813) ME 13:333.
The sentence 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. is sometimes paraphrased as "Knowledge is like a candle. Even as it lights a new candle, the strength of the original flame is not diminished."

“Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.”

Variante: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”

Letter to Thomas Lomax (12 March 1799) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16783/16783-h/16783-h.htm#2H_4_0253|
1790s

“I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another”

Letter to Elbridge Gerry http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff10.txt (26 January 1799); published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition <!-- (ME) (Lipscomb and Bergh, editors) --> 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., 1903-04, Volume 10, p. 78
1790s
Contesto: I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another, for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”

As quoted in The Man from Monticello : An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson (1969) by Thomas J. Fleming, p. 250
Posthumous publications

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