 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
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 356 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. If... | |
 | Susan Jacoby - 2004 - 433 strani
...acts as are injurious to others," Jefferson wrote. "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."4 Jefferson went on to argue: Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects... | |
 | John Ferling - 2004 - 288 strani
...never to the state. ADAMS VS. JEFFERSON He then added that "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."70 Those two sentences were reprinted endlessly in Federalist newspapers as proof of Jefferson's... | |
 | David M. Ricci - 2004 - 326 strani
...the matter even more bluntly. "The legitimate powers of government," he said, "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."85... | |
 | Ralph C. Wood - 2005 - 296 strani
...sentiments in his Notes on Virginia, declaring 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." 24.... | |
 | F. Forrester Church - 2004 - 182 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 51 neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 strani
...Virginia (1781) explained the principle this way: "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" (Koch... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler - 2004 - 208 strani
...State of Virginia, Jefferson famously argues "[T]he 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." (Jefferson [1975] 1977, 210). 8. Robert Kraynak... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 strani
...described what we call freedom of religion. "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," wrote... | |
 | Robert G. Boatright - 2004 - 278 strani
...the early American Republic, Jefferson argues that "It does me no injury for my neighbour to say that there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket or breaks my leg. . . . Truth can stand by itself. Why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity.... | |
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