Positive atheism Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson believed that open debate and even ridicule protect the honesty of belief. He wrote that laws should treat every person the same and keep religious power away from the state. He also warned that priests can be mocked without fear, and that the future will be Unitarian.
![“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f83/thomas-jefferson-43_citizens_the-most-sacred-of-the-duties-of-a-gover_3100529.jpg)
![“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b52/thomas-jefferson-43_freedom_that-liberty-is-pure-which-is-to-go-to-a_1990032.jpg)
![“The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b59/thomas-jefferson-43_freedom_the-rights-to-religious-freedom-are-of-t_2762239.jpg)
![“Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/896/thomas-jefferson-43_badges_of-distinction-by-birth-or-badge-america_767499.jpg){kind=icon}
![“It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/thomas-jefferson-43_break_it-is-time-enough-for-the-rightful-purpo_2061978.jpg)
![“The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e7/thomas-jefferson-43_benevolent_the-christian-religion-when-divested-of_1371700.jpg)
![“[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the]…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/612/thomas-jefferson-43_atheism_if-the-nature-of-government-were-a-subor_2243937.jpg)
![“Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/508/thomas-jefferson-43_ambassadors_our-virginia-s-act-for-freedom-of-religi_2603800.jpg)
![“The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/895/thomas-jefferson-43_aristocracy_the-law-for-religious-freedom-has-put-do_60865.jpg)
![“The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/thomas-jefferson-43_altars_the-clergy-believe-that-any-portion-of-p_1301853.jpg)
