Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.
Thomas JeffersonOf all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
Thomas JeffersonGovernment as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
Thomas JeffersonNothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Thomas JeffersonThe earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.
Thomas Jefferson