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Civil Government Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- [T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his…
- It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break…
- The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
- A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
- History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their…
- History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their…
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- The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. — Thomas Jefferson
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