We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
Thomas JeffersonTag: religious-freedom civil-rights
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas JeffersonThere exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the priests of the different religious sects, who dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of day-light; and scowl on it the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies on which they live. In this the Presbyterian clergy take the lead. The tocsin is sounded in all their pulpits, and the first alarm denounced is against the particular creed of Doctr. Cooper; and as impudently denounced as if they really knew what it is.
[Letter to José Francesco Corrê a Da Serra - Monticello, April 11, 1820]
Tag: science dread creed opposition university-of-virginia witches science-vs-religion clergy priests presbyterian pulpit duperies fatal-harbinger religious-sects william-and-mary
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Thomas JeffersonTag: liberty freedom america founding-fathers thomas-jefferson
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment...But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Thomas JeffersonAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas JeffersonTag: enemies
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
Thomas JeffersonThe most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavours of our lives.
Thomas JeffersonThe only security of all is in a free press.
Thomas JeffersonTag: free-speech free-press
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. --
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