In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is themost… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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