2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal.Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.