Subject:  American Minute - Apr. 13 - Thomas Jefferson born
Date:  Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:08:05 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

April 13

He drafted the Declaration of Independence and was Governor of
Virginia. As the 3rd U.S. President, he approved the Louisiana
Purchase and had Lewis and Clark explore it.

His name was Thomas Jefferson, born APRIL 13, 1743.

Excerpts of his writings are inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in
Washington, DC:

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation
be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are
the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that
God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."

In his Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, January 16, 1796,
Jefferson wrote:

"Almighty God hath created the mind free...All attempts to influence
it by temporal punishments...tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy...

and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion,
who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it
by coercions on either, as was in His Almighty power to do, but to
extend it by its influence on reason alone."

In his 2nd Inaugural, Jefferson wrote: "I shall need, too, the favor
of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as
Israel of old."



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