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How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!
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The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
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To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
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The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
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[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
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Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.
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A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
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Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
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But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?
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Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
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No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
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The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
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