Father Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other…

— Thomas Jefferson

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

— Thomas Jefferson

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

— Thomas Jefferson

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

— Thomas Jefferson

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

— Thomas Jefferson

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the…

— Thomas Jefferson

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in…

— Thomas Jefferson

Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that…

— Thomas Jefferson

among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that…

— Thomas Jefferson

When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my…

— Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old,…

— Thomas Jefferson

This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves…

— Thomas Jefferson

... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying…

— Thomas Jefferson

In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late…

— Thomas Jefferson

“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father…

— Thomas Jefferson

female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential…

— Thomas Jefferson

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a…

— Thomas Jefferson