More from Thomas Jefferson

  1. Whatever be their degree of talents, it is no measure of their rights.
  2. Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and…
  3. The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticisms, fancies and falsehoods, have ca…
  4. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with ano…
  5. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the p…
  6. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienab…
  7. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men …
  8. We must therefore...hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

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