Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
- Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man.
- Thomas Jefferson
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
- Thomas Jefferson
The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
- Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, the first-born of science.
- Thomas Jefferson