Abracadabra Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abracadabra Against religion Anti atheist Atheism Founding fathers religion God delusion Libertarian Propositions Religion Ridicule Used Weapons
Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made… — William Jay Youmans Copy Share Image
“Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may be amusing.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image