Thomas Jefferson — Philosophical Quotes

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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.”

Office Innovation Prepared

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.”

Would Be Steps Fields

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Philosophical

“Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies”

Fantasy Legends

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Philosophical

“No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.”

Men Race

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Philosophical

“The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.”

Men Law Civil Rights

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Philosophical

“It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

Government Rights Exercise

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Philosophical

“It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.”

People Law Judging

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Philosophical

“Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.”

Men Mind Needs

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Philosophical

“I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.”

Character Animal Civilization

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Philosophical

“Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.”

Politics Errors Truth Is

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Philosophical

“I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.”

Science Language Instruments

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Philosophical

“Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.”

Giving Christian Atheism

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