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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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I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites
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Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
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Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
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I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
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Those are governed best who are governed least.
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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian Mathematics Natural philosophy Natural History Civil History Ethics.
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If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.
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It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.
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... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.
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The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.
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When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
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No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.
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