Quote by Stephen E. Ambrose Download Open image ““Jefferson could write, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”” — Stephen E. Ambrose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.” — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“Mark my words, when a government pretends that it is the highest judge of its own actions, the result is not freedom as Jefferson… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I have also frequently heard people question the faith of Thomas Jefferson. However, in his 1781 notes on the state of Virginia, he wrote,… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country but it might not be the same… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“From my childhood days I have understood that we believe absolutely that the Constitution of our country was an inspired instrument, and that God… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“I think it's God that makes people care for people, Jefferson. I think it's God makes children play and people sing. I believe it's… — Ernest J. Gaines Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson’s classic formulation: ‘it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
“A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.” — Matt McCook Copy Share Image
“Tell your papa I’ll call upon him soon. Mr. Jefferson is still very much needed here in Paris, where his revolution remains undone. In… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“Amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in God, knowing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Jefferson is now remembered as the author of one of the English language’s most timeless passages, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall,” the paratroopers liked to say. “He forgot to put a roof on… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse’s religion—whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Thus the total armada amounted to 5,333 ships and craft of all types,” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Ronald Spiers: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“These are some of the qualities that make for a good company commander. Lewis had them in abundance, plus some special touches that made… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply,… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“I instinctively dislike ever to uphold the conservative as opposed to the bold” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a father of… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“May works be the test of patriotism as they ought, of right, to be of religion.” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“So it had always been and apparently would be. The terms “peace” and “war” as understood by the Americans had no meaning to the… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“(In Austria after VE Day) Sergeant Mercier...dressed in a full German officer's uniform, topped off with a monocle for his right eye. Someone got… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
