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Thomas
Jefferson
Signer and
principal author of the Declaration of Independence
and 3rd President of the United States.
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Thomas Jefferson
"The practice of morality being necessary for
the well being of society, He [God] has taken care
to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts
that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of
our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral
precepts of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered
in greater purity than in his discourses."
(source: The Writings of Thomas
Jefferson, Albert Ellery Bergh,editor (Washington,
D.C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904),
Vol. XII, p.315, to James Fishback, September 27,
1809.
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Thomas Jefferson
"God who gave us life gave us liberty.
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure
when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction
in the minds of the people that these liberties are
of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated
but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country
when I reflect that God is just: that His justice
cannot sleep forever."
(Source: Thomas Jefferson, Notes
on State of Virginia (Philadelphia: Mathew Carey,
1794),p. 237, Query XVIII.
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Thomas Jefferson
"A nation that expects to be ignorant
-and free-…it expects what never was and never
will be."
(Source: Thomas Jefferson,
Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Bergh, editor
( Washington, D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Assoc.,
1904),Vol.XIV,p.384, in a letter to Colonel Charles
Yancey on January 6, 1816.
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