- #Jefferson let them stand undisturbed as monuments full
- #Jefferson let them stand undisturbed as monuments free
"The opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds." -Thomas Jefferson: Bill for Religious Freedom, 1779. "Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason." -Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 1808. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men." -Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. "Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. And they will eternally prevail however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical." -Thomas Jefferson to Rev. as the umpire of truth." -Thomas Jefferson to Miles King, 1814. "No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth." -Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804.
#Jefferson let them stand undisturbed as monuments free
"This blessed country of free inquiry and belief has surrendered its creed and conscience to neither kings nor priests." -Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 1822. "Our people in a body are wise because they are under the unrestrained and unperverted operation of their own understandings." -Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 1802. "It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not." -Thomas Jefferson to N. "The idea of establishing a government by reasoning and agreement, publicly ridiculed as an Utopian project, visionary and unexampled." -Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1797. "A government of reason is better than one of force." -Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1820. by ignorance, indigence and oppression." -Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823.
#Jefferson let them stand undisturbed as monuments full
"We believed that men, enjoying in ease and security the full fruits of their own industry, enlisted by all their interests on the side of law and order, habituated to think for themselves and to follow their reason as their guide, would be more easily and safely governed than with minds nourished in error and vitiated and debased. " principles founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason." -Thomas "It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions." -Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1786. "Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights." -Thomas Jefferson to Ezra Stiles, 1786. "I am satisfied the good sense of the people is the strongest army our government can ever have, and that it will not fail them." -Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 1786.
"I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force." -Thomas Jefferson to Comte Diodati, 1789. "My hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason." -Thomas Jefferson to George Mason, 1791. The Founding Fathers introduced the revolutionary idea that government could rest on the reasoned choice of the people themselves, which was thought absurd in other lands at that time. The people in general were considered little more than cattle, to be governed and controlled by those possessing wealth, education and power, and kept under subjection lest they undermine the stability of the government. But before our nation was founded, modern governments were based on authoritarian domination. We who have grown up in a democratic republic take for granted a government of the people based on reason and the people's choice.
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