“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 we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...
{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
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