Overt Acts Quotes
- 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… — Thomas Jefferson
- It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of… — Charles Evans Hughes
- We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous… — Baron de Montesquieu
- Laws undertake to punish only overt acts. — Baron de Montesquieu