I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
Thomas JeffersonTags: politics political-philosophy
Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism — free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence;
Thomas JeffersonIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas JeffersonTags: truth government
I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances,
Thomas JeffersonTags: inspirational opinion university-of-virginia theology best
When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a man wish to thrust himself.
[Letter to George Logan, 12 November 1816]
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I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
Thomas JeffersonTags: religion skepticism
While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.
Thomas JeffersonTags: science
...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
Thomas JeffersonTags: inspirational politics inaugural-address history bipartisanship
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
Thomas JeffersonTags: science opinions physics civil-rights geometry
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
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