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The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Heart, Godly

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Thomas Jefferson
Lying, Believe, Heart
Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.81, Courier Corporation

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, Blessing, Knowing
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.286

The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.

Thomas Jefferson
Jesus, Heart, Simple

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, Government, Law
Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.75, Courier Corporation

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, Democracy, Informed Citizenry

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Heart, Land
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.235, Penguin

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom, Country, Heart
Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Patriotic, Heart
Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.265, Princeton University Press

That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

Thomas Jefferson
Peace, Heart, Thinking
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.378

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, Perfect, Mind
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

Thomas Jefferson
Believe, Heart, Mind

When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, Feet

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Thomas Jefferson
Friendship, Heart, Character
Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, President, Tongue
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286

I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.

Thomas Jefferson
Children, Heart, School
Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.207, Hackett Publishing

I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Heart, Thinking

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

Thomas Jefferson
Believe, Heart, Government
Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.265, Princeton University Press

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

Thomas Jefferson
God, Patriotic, Heart

The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.

Thomas Jefferson
Jesus, Philosophy, Heart
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.517

Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, Government, Years
Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

Thomas Jefferson
Prayer, Heart, Feelings
Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Jefferson Papers [1770-1826”

When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Prayer, Heart

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, Men, Law
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.613