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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
{Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813}
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― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.
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