4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in favor of novelty
Thomas JeffersonTags: science inspiration inquiry evidence astronomy-nerd book-of-joshua contradiction critical-examination divine-inspiration examine joshua livy new-testament probability supernatural tacitus testimony
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas JeffersonTags: freedom
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas JeffersonTags: education literature illiteracy journalism
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
Thomas JeffersonTags: political-philosophy government
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas JeffersonPeace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas JeffersonEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas JeffersonTags: tyranny enlighten jefferson opression
I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of religion as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Were I to enter on that arena, I should only add an unit to the number of Bedlamites.
[Letter to Mathew Carey, 11 November 1816]
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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