...Roman history. He has impiously written in his Notes "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are twenty Gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." But it is not in his book alone that his hatred of Christ and His Church is betrayed. His daily speech...

...government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither...testimony in a court of justice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite,...

...says, is something with which government has nothing to do. " It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Constraint makes hypocrites, not converts. A government is no more competent to prescribe beliefs than...

...harm: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there...or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."1'6 On this rationale, Jefferson espoused a strict distinction between belief, which should be...

...different creed than I do? The classic expression was Jefferson's: "[I]t does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." 1 From this perspective, religious intolerance seems a manifestation less of outdated thinking than...

...extend to such acts only as are injurious to others . . . But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg ... Subject opinion to coercion, whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men, men governed by...

...government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither...testimony in a court of justice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite,...

...government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." In his most famous utterance on religion, Jefferson said, "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal...

...dictum in his 'Notes on the State of Virginia (Query 17) that "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Yet in the very next passage (Query 17) of the same work Jefferson says, "And can the liberties of...

...useful art. Query XV, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Query XVII, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 It can never be too often repeated, that the time...