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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots... (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists... (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The uniform tenor of a man’s life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won’t forget the basic principles of freedom. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
People are strange, when you are a stranger.... Faces come out in the rain, When you’re strange...... (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor’s recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day. (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)