Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry… –

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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry… –

-- Thomas Jefferson

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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 blindfolded fear.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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