I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas JeffersonTag: banks
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
Thomas JeffersonA strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.
Thomas Jefferson...legitimate powers of government reach actions only,
Thomas JeffersonTag: religion government civil-rights organized-religion separation-of-church-and-state
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas JeffersonTag: president thomas-jefferson
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
Thomas JeffersonAn honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas JeffersonOur country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas JeffersonThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas JeffersonAltho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may be amusing. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. If it could be understood it would not answer their purpose. Their security is in their faculty of shedding darkness, like the scuttlefish, thro' the element in which they move, and making it impenetrable to the eye of a pursuing enemy, and there they will skulk.
[Letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp on 30 July 1810 denouncing the Christian doctrine of the Trinity]
Tag: weapon superstition ridicule trinity christians priests abracadabra the-trinity
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