Monday, September 14, 2009

Some Thomas Jefferson quotes

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands]. [The preceding bracketed statement is Jefferson's own, not my addition.]

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.

Delay is preferable to error.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

2 comments:

  1. Is this related to the Pastafarian Student Alliance, Brother Micah, joining the Jeffs, or all of the above?

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  2. I was looking up quotes for an ENWR story and these looked cool. No reason other than that.

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