As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
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The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés truth knowledge courage fact lifelong-learning honest bold
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés liberty government censor press
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés justice tyranny prison danger law torture
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés pride jefferson cost thomas
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés liberty freedom easy difficult change tyranny government effort despotism hard
Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés political-philosophy government
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
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