"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since……" — Thomas Jefferson
"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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