I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Anti Religious Quotes

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable...

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable...

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that...

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that...

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it...

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it...

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely...

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely...

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook...

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook...

Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies

Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his...

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his...

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain...

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain...

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like...

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like...

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand...

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest...

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest...

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity...

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity...

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.