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Thomas Jefferson Slavery Quotes & Sayings

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No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate

Thomas Jefferson

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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. --Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

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Our situation illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established." With the politically correct controversy on slavery, it is noted that the unusual statements that Jefferson Davis makes are interesting, and many do not seem to fit into the mold that they try to put him in.

Jefferson Davis

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Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God, let him go to the Bible...I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation...Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come.

Jefferson Davis

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My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him, our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude...You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be.

Jefferson Davis

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African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

Jefferson Davis

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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

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If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.

Jefferson Davis

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He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

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Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages, has been found among the people of the highest civilization, and in nations of the highest proficiency in the arts.

Jefferson Davis

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We never repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson

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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Thomas Jefferson

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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson

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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

Thomas Jefferson

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Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson

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