...conscience we never submitted, we could not submit" because men are answerable for them to God only. "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no...

...somewhat) that of preventing the use of force by the parties involved. As Jefferson strikingly puts it, "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no...

...rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. 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 gods....

...rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.87 Of course, the operations of the mind extend to subjects other than those of...

...found in them a masculine, sound understanding. Letter to General Chastellux, 7 June 1785. 1830:230. 4 The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no...

...136-139, 163. 59. Compare Jefferson's language here with that in the Notes on the State of Virginia: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others." Jefferson, "Query XVII," Notes on Virginia, in Writings of Jefferson, vol. 2,...

...that the operations of the mind, as well as acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. 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...

...convictions. '"''' For example, compare the passages quoted in note 177 above with Jefferson's statement that "[t]he legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others." T. JEFFERSON, NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, supra note 116, at 159. 171 Professor...

...(1859). ln fact, Thomas Jefferson presaged Mill by three quarters of century, writing in 1787 that "the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others." Notes on the State of Virginia in Jefferson, Writings 285 (Library of America...

...to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. ..." In Notes on the State of Virginia he wrote, "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....