Frases de Thomas Jefferson

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Variante: «El árbol de la libertad debe ser vigorizado de vez en cuando con la sangre de patriotas y tiranos: es su fertilizante natural»

Fuente: Carta con fecha del 13 de agosto de 1786 dirigida a su amigo George Wythe.

Cita con múltiples atribuciones desde al Antiguedad Clásica hasta el siglo XX.

Fuente: Carta a Isaac McPherson, 13 de agosto de 1813. <br class="br">Fuente: Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 26 de septiembre, 2011, The University of Chicago, 1987, The Founders&#x27; Constitution, inglés http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html,

Sobre miembros del clero los cuales trataban de lograr alguna forma de Cristianismo oficial en el gobierno de EE.UU. Carta al Dr. Benjamin Rush, 23 de septiembre de 1800.

Fuente: Carta a los jefes de la nación Cherokee, 1806.
Fuente: Jefferson, Thomas, Autobiografía y otros escritos, Madrid:Tecnos, 1987, página 618.

Fuente: Letter to John Taylor, 26 de septiembre, inglés http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=308,

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

Letter to Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (24 April 1816)
1810s

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

1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1785)

Not found in Jefferson&#x27;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. <br class="br">Misattributed

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

1810s <br class="br">Fuente: Selected Writings <br class="br">Contexto: 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.<br><br> Letter to Isaac McPherson http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html (13 August 1813) ME 13:333.<br>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 &quot;Knowledge is like a candle. Even as it lights a new candle, the strength of the original flame is not diminished.&quot;

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

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

Letter to Elbridge Gerry http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff10.txt (26 January 1799); published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition &lt;!-- (ME) (Lipscomb and Bergh, editors) --&gt; 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., 1903-04, Volume 10, p. 78 <br class="br">1790s <br class="br">Contexto: I am for freedom of religion, &amp; 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.

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