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- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
- When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the…
- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
- I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
- Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind
- with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to…
- letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our…
- A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so…
- 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…
- 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 clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- 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…
- Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting…
- The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the…
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