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Father Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
- Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University…
- female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
- Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it…
- I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely…
- We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
- No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
- ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
- Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
- There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and…
- If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,…
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be…
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- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
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- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
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- Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government.… — Michael Badnarik