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Errors Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a…
- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
- Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
- 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…
- If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
- This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may…
- Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
- Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry]…
- Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
- It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence,…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
- The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
- What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
- No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming…
- The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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