American founding fathers Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”

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A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

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[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

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“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…

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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…

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Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear…

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A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

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The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…

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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.

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There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…

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Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate…

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What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that…

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In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

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The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and…

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We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has…

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I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of…

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I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel:…

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The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will…

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