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• Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of matrydom to the reformers of error.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)...
• Delay is preferable to error. -- Thomas Jefferso
• I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing... -- Thomas Jefferso
• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
  -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson....
• But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country was Jesus of Nazareth.
  Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of ma...
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. -- Thomas Jefferso
• It is error alone which needs the support of government.
  Truth can stand by itself. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Notes on Virginia...
• 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....