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“The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.” quote by Thomas Jefferson — Download Open image

“The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.”

Thomas Jefferson

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A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such…

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

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“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…

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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…

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Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear…

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A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

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The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…

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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.

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