Thomas Jefferson Memorial

A monument to Thomas Jefferson was presented to the people of Kentucky on July 4, 1900 by Isaac W. and Bernard Bernheim to perpetuate the teachings and examples of the Founders of the Republic. Its inscriptions proclaim that Almighty God created the mind free, that attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens depart from the plan of the holy author of religion, and that no man should be compelled to frequent or support religious worship or ministry or suffer because of religious opinions or belief, but that all men should be free to profess and maintain their opinions in matters of religion. They also affirm one code of morality for men acting singly or collectively, equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political, the self-evident truths that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that governments are instituted among men to secure these rights, and eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Louisville, Kentucky · United States