Thomas Jefferson — Philosophical Quotes

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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.”

Law Justice Judging

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids to enable such subtle bodies [air, light, &c.] to make a well-defined impression on organs as blunt as ours; that it is laudable to encourage investigation but to hold back conclusion.”

Art Light Science

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Philosophical

“Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.”

Men Justice Persuasion

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Philosophical

“I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”

Men Civil Rights

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Philosophical

“A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry”

Defense Nations

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Philosophical

“The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it. Events may prove otherwise; and if they see their interest in separating why should we take sides? God bless them both, and keep them in union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.”

Thinking Wish Son

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Philosophical

“The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.”

Religious Rights Natural

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Philosophical

“Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.”

Firsts Jesus Teaching

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Philosophical

“Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.”

Men Mind Yield

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Philosophical

“In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.”

Men Party Opposites

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Philosophical

“[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.”

Rights Religion Natural

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Philosophical

“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”

Exercise Humility Power

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