Thomas Jefferson Quote

"In every country and every age,
the priest has been hostile to liberty.
He is always in alliance with the despot,
abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination
than by deserving them, and to effect this,
they have perverted the purest religion
ever preached to man into mystery and jargon,
unintelligible to all mankind, and
therefore the safer for their purposes."

by:	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source:	letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?mtj:2:./temp/~ammem_TZzS::
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Categories:	Freedom, Liberty, Power, President, Religion, Wealth
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-- Anonymous
salamanderines don't have any priests. we are a free form group. no hierarchy, no devils, no heaven and no hell. we are all for liberty  -- salamander, the world
Salamanderines are all worse than devils, which avoid salamanderines on grounds they are too evil. Salamanderines have been implicated with most of the most malignant groups on earth, including many in Afghanistan and the Middle East.  -- god's right hand man, heaven

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