Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Reflection

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Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Thomas Jefferson

Reflection, Men, Doors

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.481, Cosimo, Inc.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

Thomas Jefferson

Dream, Reflection, Hints

In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.

Thomas Jefferson

Religious, Reflection, Giving

Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States (1904). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

Thomas Jefferson

Reading, Reflection, Religion

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.281, Cambridge University Press

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.

Thomas Jefferson

Reading, Reflection, Bears

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.281, Cambridge University Press