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is responsible for creating a 'wall of separation' between church and state.

Thomas Jefferson argued that the First Amendment created a 'wall of separation' between. church and state.. The significance of Gitlow v. New York was . . .

's importance will not be grasped until it is too late. (falsely attributed).

The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late. Thomas Jefferson

is the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson.

is an institution more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson

is an existential threat to democracy. when government falls into its hands, democracy will fail.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations. Thomas Jefferson

is a drink that, if drunk with moderation, it softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. Thomas Jefferson

is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds... education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds... enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. Thomas Jefferson

is inferior to the white man in the endowments of both body and mind. (whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances).

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.Thomas Jefferson

is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. Thomas Jefferson

is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. Thomas Jefferson

is persuasive. One man with courage is a majority.

One man with courage is a majority. Thomas Jefferson

is a violation of the cardinal rule of economics: one ought never spend one's money before one has it.

Never spend your money before you have it.

is, when accrued by the government, a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army.

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. Thomas Jefferson

is essentially about equal opportunity for everyone to advance himself socially and economically.

For Jefferson, democracy mainly meant an equal opportunity for everyone to advance himself socially and economically. This is not to say that Jefferson's concept of democracy is the only one that has been advocated by Americans.

is less something to be handed down in an embalmed form than a process of possibly endless improvement.

For Jefferson, democracy was less something to be handed down in an embalmed form than a process of possibly endless improvement. He recognized, as Anderson puts it, 'We are not yet what we mean to be.' Jefferson's real importance to . . .

is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. Thomas Jefferson

is the hopeful experiment that tests whether men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. Could the contrary of this be proved I should conclude either that there is no God or that He is a malevolent being. THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) Letter to David Hartley, 1787

is essential to our system of law. It is thus more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. Thomas Jefferson

is to be done in moderation. One never repents of having eaten too little.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

is intended to erect a wall of separation between church and state.

In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), the U.S. Supreme Court incorporated the Establishment Clause (i.e., made it apply against the states): The 'establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion to another . . . in the words of Jefferson, the [First Amendment] clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between church and State' . . . That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.[11]

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