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False Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- 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.…
- You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be…
- The problem with letting kids on Facebook is that they'll learn all kinds of false quotations.
- The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that…
- One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
- 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…
- The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the…
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree…
- It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear…
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