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Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.


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ROB BELL He's too close - he lived well into the 20th Century, ... If you look at Thomas Jefferson and presid...
BRUCE TYLER Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
BLAISE PASCAL Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
ROBIN QUIVERS I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be aro...
MAIRA KALMAN Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.
ANTONIN SCALIA It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God t...
FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he wa...
THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speec...
ROBIN QUIVERS Thomas is a solid hockey player; always has been. But his confidence is really high right now.
DON JENNINGS I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, t...
DOROTHEA DIX We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worshi...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for h...
TERRY PRATCHETT The Arch, formally known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, dedicated to President Thomas...
MARY HENDRON Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black ...
GREG GRANDIN Jesus' moral teaching does not consist of a universal scheme of ethics, a series of precepts which w...
GABRIEL HERBERT He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the ...
BARBARA CASTLE He brought his lips to my ear. "I would have been gentle with you, though." I shuddered as I closed ...
SARAH J. MAAS And if there had been more of the world, They would have reached it
LUIS DE CAMOES This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world ...
ALICE PAUL A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he ...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Feast of Michael & All Angels The nominal Christian, then, will see Jesus as a name, a representa...
ROBERT L. SHORT It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pur...
TOM STOPPARD If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
BLAISE PASCAL Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy...
RICK PERLSTEIN It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the worl...
ALLEN R. HUNT Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always bee...
JACQUES ELLUL SOCRATES: They have differences of opinion, as you say, about good and evil, just and unjust, honour...
PLATO As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be l...
PETER STEELE The North Koreans have every intention to lie, steal and cheat as much as they can get away with and...
GRAHAM ALLISON The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else rema...
JOSIAH ROYCE The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apos...
JOHN STRACHAN This is too much reality for a Friday.
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LEV GROSSMAN There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would...
GEORGE MACDONALD As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n...
PAULO COELHO He had a vision of a nation. The incredible martial skills of the Mongol tribes had always been wast...
CONN IGGULDEN Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 What is the Christian? ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of playe...
MICHAEL OWEN Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
HENRY VAUGHAN The preservation community, in all frankness, has not been as organized in the past as they could ha...
BLAKE HALLMAN I've been consistently struck by the amount of biblical illiteracy among Christians in churches. You...
PAUL CHAMBERLAIN As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have be...
JOAN MIRO And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia: / And thence sailed to An...
BIBLE From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appea...
JAMES JEANS clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of ...
SARAH WATERS Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, who...
BIBLE The power and attraction Jesus Christ exercises over men never comes from him alone, but from him as...
H. RICHARD NIEBUHR He wants to do everything he can for the varsity program. He wants to make Thomas Jefferson as good ...
DON POWELL Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little ...
COCO CHANEL I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercie...
DONALD CARGILL Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, befo...
BIBLE Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the...
ANONYMOUS But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I h...
TAYE DIGGS When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And...
MALESE JOW The reason it didn't do well is because it was black and white. Back then, as long as they were in c...
CONRAD BROOKS There was no standard reference when the new era of a civilized mankind began. The founding fathers ...
TOBA BETA Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preach...
NIKOLAI GOGOL My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is...
JOHN WOOLMAN I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented t...
ROCK HUDSON No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have...
JOHN KNOX We've got to see if she'll actually pick up (the game) fast enough.
ANDY BEEN She's probably my biggest scoring threat right now.
ANDY BEEN Even though we're rebuilding, who knows what will pan out. They're enjoying it. I have 26, 27 girls ...
ANDY BEEN I hate to say to the seniors that we're rebuilding. But we are.
ANDY BEEN I am a satisfied man.
HARRY BEEN Our main goal this year is to advance to the regional final.
SHANE BEEN If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideou...
BILLY GRAHAM Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the...
DAN BROWN Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from...
TOM ROBBINS Thomas Jefferson -- still surv
JOHN ADAMS Thomas Jefferson still survives.
JOHN ADAMS Well, let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor. . . ...
RONALD REAGAN But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
BIBLE I want to touch you.” His words were against my lips now. “I want to feel what’s mine. What’...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use...
GEORGE BORROW His TV ads have not been working and people are not as believing as perhaps they were. He's really b...
JAIME REGALADO Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as sca...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the ...
NIKOLAI GOGOL Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabet...
C. S. LEWIS If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate M...
DAWN FRENCH I would think that they would look at him as a person with a little more authority than maybe they t...
GERALD MYERS I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with th...
BRENNAN MANNING The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with th...
KEVIN MAX Had the water table been as high on Saturday, you would have had raging flooding.
HARRY WOODWORTH Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales ...
ERIN MORGENSTERN If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole ...
MARCO POLO To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON A lot of people who knew them (Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and Madison) would have considered them...
DAVID HOLMES Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been sta...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest mode...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let...
THOMAS JEFFERSON But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you ca...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depe...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pocket to pay for it, would make of our country...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most indepe...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war....
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THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, the abuses of monarchy had so much filled all the space of political contemplation, that w...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Were our State a pure democracy, in which all its inhabitants should meet together to transact all t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem an...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is, therefore, with the sincerest pleasure I have observed on the part of the British government ...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any ar...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Conscience is the chamber of justice.
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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You must be willing to do something you've never done.
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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.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
THOMAS JEFFERSON An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of m...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time t...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate ob...
THOMAS JEFFERSON My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there...
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We seldom report of having eaten too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tranquility is the old man's milk.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
THOMAS JEFFERSON