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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

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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 lib...more

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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that ...more

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Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care o...more

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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 blind-folded ...more

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I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment but I cannot be sa...more

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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the U...more

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I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of wh...more

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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of th...more

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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty ...more

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Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argu...more