If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right...

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right...

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the...

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the...

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A...

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A...

In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he...

In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road...

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes...

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes...

Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who...

Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who...

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than...

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than...

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and...

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

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

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

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as...

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as...

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper...

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper...

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and...

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and...

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a...

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a...

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

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