The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts onl… - Thomas Jefferson

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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. 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.

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826) was author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1777), founder of the University of Virginia (1819), the third president of the United States (1801–1809), a political philosopher, editor of Jefferson's Bible (1819), and one of the most influential founders of the United States.

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It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. — The Fruit Hunters

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

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