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Fact Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- 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…
- It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
- If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the…
- 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…
- We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
- We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable…
- But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to…
- If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective,…
- The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings…
- The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to…
- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because,…
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