He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
- Thomas Jefferson
More Quotes By Thomas Jefferson
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world... Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and... Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,…to take a part with either would be unworthy... The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational,... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the... Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law?... It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the... The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
For Heaven’s sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches... My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.... When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to... Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run…... Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can... Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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