 | Thomas Paine - 1795 - 180 strani
...are anfwerable for them to our ff God. " The legitimate powers of government extend *' to fuch atts only as are injurious to others. But ** it does me no injury for my neighbour to fay, *' there are twenty gods, or no god :— It neither *' picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. Ifitbefaid... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 strani
...fubmit them; he is anfweiable for them to God, Tho legitimate powers of government extend to fuch a£fo only as. are injurious to others; but it does me no injury for my neighbour to fay there ^re twenty gods, or no god ; it neither pick* my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be faid,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 strani
...fubmitted to fhem. The rights of confcience we never fubniitted, we could not fubmit. We are aniwerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to fuch acts only as are .injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to fay ihere are... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 strani
...the afts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have no authority over such natural rights, only as we have submitted...The legitimate powers of government extend to such afts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty... | |
 | John Mitchell MASON (D.D.) - 1803 - 336 strani
...say ! He dots preach it. " The legitimate powers of " government," they are his own words, " ex" tend to such acts only as are injurious to '•' others. But it does me no injury for my " neighbours to say there are twenty Gods or " no God. It neither picks my pocket nor " breaks my leg... | |
 | 1811 - 572 strani
...this he goes, 1 think," says Mr. Cheetham, " but I am not quite sure, further than Mr. Jefferson. " The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injuriotu to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say [thut] there are twenty Gods... | |
 | David Martin - 1819 - 124 strani
...their arrows, even bitter words. — PSALMS." *'£ut our rulers can have authority over such natu. ral rights only as we have submitted to them. \\ The rights of conscience we never submitted; we \ cannot submit. We are answerable for them to our God.— JEFFERSON." ^ FREDERICKTOfTJV, Md. PUBLISHED... | |
 | Andrew Dunlap - 1834 - 278 strani
...the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have no authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted...extend to such acts only as are injurious to others." " Constraint may make him worse by malting him a hypocrite, but it will never make him a truer man.... | |
 | Abner Kneeland, Samuel Dunn Parker - 1834 - 282 strani
...the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have no authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted...them to our God. The legitimate powers of government qxtend to snch acts only as are injurious to others." " Constraint may make him worse by making him... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1834 - 320 strani
...the acts of the body, are subject to the co^ ercion of the laws. But our rulers can have no authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted...conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We areanswerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as... | |
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The legitimate powers of 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. 
