Thomas Jefferson Quote

Quote from Thomas Jefferson,

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."

By:	Thomas Jefferson (more quotes by Thomas Jefferson or books by/about Thomas Jefferson)
	(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source:	Letter to F. Hopkinson, Paris, March 13, 1789 http://books.google.com/books?id=imMmIlv1G7MC&lpg=PA441&ots=u2i9TvK-VS&pg=PA440#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Categories:	Collectivism, Conscience, Free Thought, Politics, Reason, Religion
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