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System Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
- The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More…
- Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
- My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
- I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances,…
- Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence…
- If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap…
- The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
- Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through…
- I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient…
- The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
- "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
- The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still…
- The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause,…
- I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught…
- I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or…
- Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
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