If God is just, I tremble for my country.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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If God is just, I tremble for my country.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- 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.
- The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.
- I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
- Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
- I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Best Quotes
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- Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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