More from Thomas Jefferson

  1. Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. But I consider our relations w…
  2. The priests have so disfigured the simple religion of Jesus that no one who reads the sophistications they have engrafted on it, from the j…
  3. I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal i…
  4. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
  5. I agree ... that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. But we cannot always do what is absolutely best. Thos…
  6. I, too, have made a wee-little book from the same materials, which I call the Philosophy of Jesus; it is a paradigma of his doctrines, made…
  7. Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine…
  8. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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