 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.  The Rights of Man: For the Benefit of All Mankind - Stran 27avtor: Thomas Paine - 1795 - 151 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James H. Hutson - 2009 - 288 strani
...Boyd, Paper* of Tliomas Jefferson, 2:545-46. 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 god. It The neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg .... It is error... | |
 | Andrew Burstein - 2005 - 376 strani
...conscience, the established clergy felt his hostility, as in: "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."6 In the election year of 1800, Jefferson rendered that hostility into unmistakable imagery when... | |
 | Donald Kirchinger - 2005 - 222 strani
...proven guilty. 24) Laws that Initiate Force. "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." -... | |
 | Barbara Allen - 2005 - 418 strani
...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 God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."96... | |
 | Richard T. Hughes - 2005 - 196 strani
...Notes on Virginia contained the assertion that "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." To... | |
 | Alf J. Mapp - 2003 - 196 strani
...opinions in physics and geometry. . . . The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts 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." Jefferson... | |
 | Chris Rodda - 2006 - 534 strani
...as they are injurious to others, he says, "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 god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The whole passage... | |
 | John Clayton - 2006 - 408 strani
...religion at all. As he colourfully put it on one occasion, 'it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.'24 This privatization of religion and separation of personal belief from civic virtue in the Jeffersonian... | |
 | Emily Griesinger, Mark A. Eaton - 2006 - 395 strani
...Concerning Toleration"). "The legitimate powers of government," added Jefferson, "extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are twenty Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"... | |
 | Tom Streeter - 2006 - 458 strani
...of government and the freedom of religion: 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. If... | |
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