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.

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.

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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. If I could
not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter To Francis Hopkinson, Paris Mar. 13, 1789

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