All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power. All
- People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace. Advance
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left… Bases
- The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these… Able
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,… Certain
- There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of… Absolutely
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which… Branches
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity… Depend
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .… Able
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and… Attention
- The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. Acts
- Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. Any
- Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. Affair
- I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a… Absurdities
- The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth… Adulterated
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… Atheism
- Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the… According
- Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself. Atheism
- What is it men cannot be made to believe! Atheism
- I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the… Atheism
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of… Act
- My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on… All
- I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism.… Addressing
- But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who… Aggrandizing
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… Accomplishing