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Made Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have…
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- What is it men cannot be made to believe!
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other…
- We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but…
- Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his…
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
- You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
- If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
- If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed…
- No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.
- There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…
- If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
- 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.
- On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be…
- It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
- 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…
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