"The way to silence religious disputes is to……" — Thomas Jefferson
"The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them."
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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if…
— Ambrose Bierce
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't…
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom…
— James Buchanan
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
— James Buchanan
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who…
— Samuel Butler
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Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
— Dalai Lama
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We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this,…
— Unknown Author
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
— Alexander Pope
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