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Thomas Jefferson

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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.


— Thomas Jefferson


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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.


— Thomas Jefferson


#politics #rebellion #rebellion

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.


— Thomas Jefferson


#religious #rights #freedom

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.


— Thomas Jefferson


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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 Jefferson


#skepticism #religion

no people can be both ignorant and free.


— Thomas Jefferson


#ignorance #freedom

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters


— Thomas Jefferson


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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Removing or preventing corrupting dependence would enable men to be equal in practice. At age 16 Jefferson entered the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg and first met the law professor George Wythe who became his influential mentor. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions which if not covered will end in their destruction which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.

Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 (April 2 1743 O. Elected Vice President in 1796 when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts. In 1803 President Jefferson initiated a process of Indian tribal removal and relocation to the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi River in order to open lands for eventual American settlers.

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