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Thomas Jefferson1743–1826

The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

Thomas Jefferson on America

Letter to John Adams (12 September 1821)

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.
- Liberty
- War & Peace
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
In: John F. Nash Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1, Xlibris Corporation,14 February 2008, p. 11.
- Anti-Religion
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Query XVIII (Richmond, 1853), pp. 174–175
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More about America

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)
- Politics
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956‘Notes On Journalism’ in the Chicago Tribune (19 September 1926)

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