Thomas Jefferson - Words of Wisdom

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I hope you won't mind if I add a quote about Jefferson, instead of one by him:

"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

--John F. Kennedy, during his address at a White House dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners (April 29, 1962)

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He truly was a GREAT man!

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Jefferson was a great man. Not a big fan of religion, however. I'm OK with that, but I know there a a lot of right-wing religious folks on this site

Some quotes:

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."

"Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind."

"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors."

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."

"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth."

Jefferson was accused of being an "infidel" by some of his opponents.
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TPTB have taught us to worship "democracy", but what IS democracy, really? Jefferson knew:

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

That's why the Founding Fathers created a Constitutional Republic and NOT a democracy.

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Thomas Jefferson was way ahead of his time.