https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:10:10 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/22187/ https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/22187/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:40:25 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=22187 On the dogmas of religion as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Were I to enter on that arena, I should only add an unit to the number of Bedlamites.

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801–09)
Letter (1816-11-11) to Matthew Carey
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