Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Revolution Founding Fathers
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Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
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I have sworn upon the altar of god.
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I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
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My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
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Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
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I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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