More from Thomas Jefferson
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.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- Letter to Peter Carr (1787), Scan of the original page at The Library of Congress.
More about liberty
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790This was first used by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its “Reply to the Governor” (November 11, 1755) Reply to the Governor
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, book IV, 1291.b34