Conscience is the only clue that will eternally guide a man clear of all doubts and inconsistencies.
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.
Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government.
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?
I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
The successful experiment made under the prevalence of that delusion on the clause of the constitution, which, while it secured the freedom of the press, covered also the freedom of religion, had given to the clergy a very favorite hope of obtaining an establishment of a particular form of Christianity thro’ the U.S.; and as […]
