"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
(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 |
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