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“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“When God commands, do it! ”
― Joseph Smith

“We say that God is true; that the Constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Christ is true”
― Joseph Smith Jr.

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.”
― George Washington

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
― George Washington Carver

“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.”
― George Washington, George Washington's Farewell Address

“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
― Thomas Paine the 5th, The Crisis