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This page features the famous quote by third president and leading enlightenment figure Thomas Jefferson, who remarked in 1784 "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." We'll have more about what Thomas Jefferson was talking about and the context of the quote below.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Establish a law for educating the common people.
16 wrz 2024 · Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. In a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour.
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." - Thomas Jefferson
1 mar 2023 · "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.
5 wrz 2023 · “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.” ― Thomas Jefferson
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
