Thomas Jefferson Inquiry Quotations

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.