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Been Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go…
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
- The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he…
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and…
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by…
- The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,…
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
- Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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