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I’m not pretty, I’m not well dowered, I’m not clever, I’m not witty.…Why were one’s failings so often the sum of one’s self-awareness?
“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]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
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“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
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“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
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“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
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