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Jefferson: Political Writings

Book by Thomas Jefferson · 5 quotes · Men, Government, Liberty

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“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.”

“The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.”

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”

“The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.”