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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
Thomas Jefferson
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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 join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
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Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.
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I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
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Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.
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