Thomas Jefferson Quotes

It Is Not To Be Understood That I Am With Him [Jesus] In All His Doctrines. I Am A Materialist, He Takes The Side Of Spiritualism; He Preaches The Efficacy Of Repentance Toward Forgiveness Of Sin. I Require A Counterpoise Of Good Works To Redeem It ... Among The Sayings & Discourses Imputed To Him By His Biographers, I Find Many Passages Of Fine Imagination, Correct Morality, And Of The Most Lovely Benevolence: And Others Again Of So Much Ignorance, So Much Absurdity, So Much Untruth, Charlatanism, And Imposture, As To Pronounce It Impossible That Such Contradictions Should Have Proceeded From The Same Being.
[Letter To William Short, 13 April 1820]

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