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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
«Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were the entire world looking at you, and act accordingly»
«It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others»
«The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
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«Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
answerable, oracle, oracles, rightness, uprightness
«Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
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«If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fanaticism,
Freedom,
Hell,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
| Keywords:
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«Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?»
«If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
gave, Give Me Liberty, holy, holy war, independence, liberties, saved, There was