Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 by Samuel
Thomas Jefferson:
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the States. (Letter to Samuel Miller — 1808)
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Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2012 by Samuel
Thomas Jefferson:
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
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Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2012 by Samuel
In the words of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence:
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of 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; that a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event.” (Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237)
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Posted on Friday, July 27, 2012 by Samuel
John Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson:
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. 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.”
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Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 by Samuel
Quoting Thomas Jefferson, 1871:
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
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