Thomas Jefferson Quotes

• Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

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• Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace.

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• Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant —too sacred to be touched.

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• Equal and exact justice to all men…freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected—these principles form the bright constellation that has gone before us.

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• I am for encouraging the progress of science in all its branches; and not for…awing the human mind by stories of raw-head and bloody bones to a distrust of its own vision and to repose implicitly on that of others.

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• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

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• We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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• If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey, he is obligated to do so.

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• But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

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• There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

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• I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

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• If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny.

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• Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

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• Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.

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• I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

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• When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

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• A room without books is like a life without meaning.

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• When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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• The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

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• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

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Thomas Jefferson (237)

Birth:	13th April, 1743
Death:	4th July, 1826
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Administrator, Author, Lawyer, Planter, Politician, President, Principal

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