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In the Scriptures, Jesus isn’t safe. No one knew what to do with him. The liberals called him too conservative, and the conservatives called him too liberal.


Jefferson Bethke

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THOMAS JEFFERSON Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil s...
THOMAS JEFFERSON And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our instit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
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