 | Norman A. Johnson - 2007 - 256 strani
...is," Will responded. After quoting Thomas Jefferson, who said, "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," Will notes, "But it is injurious, and unneighborly, when zealots try to compel public education to... | |
 | John Bice - 2007 - 220 strani
...believe; it's none of my concern. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, "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." 162 When unsupported beliefs, however, invade and infect public policy and education, it becomes everyone's... | |
 | Edward J. Larson - 2007 - 349 strani
...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." No one would make such claims who believed in God or appreciated religion's role in maintaining ordered... | |
 | Ronald Bishop - 2012 - 218 strani
...freethinker and deist" (p. 43). As Jefferson wrote in 1784, "[I]t 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" (quoted in Jacoby, 2004, p. 42). But to Olson, it was acknowledgment of religious heritage more than... | |
 | Sheila Suess Kennedy - 2007 - 257 strani
...of us agree with Thomas Jefferson's famous formulation 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" (Jefferson 1782, 184). One component of that tolerance is a belief in civility, the distaste for divisiveness... | |
 | Jon Butler, Grant Wacker, Randall Balmer - 2007 - 538 strani
...imagine to be true about God does no harm one way or another. "[I]t 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." Coercion by the state in matters of religion simply did not work, he said. The result was "to make... | |
 | Thomas Banchoff - 2007 - 352 strani
...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."26 Religious Pluralism: Civic Perspectives Taking a civic perspective on religious pluralism leads... | |
 | Hugh Donald Forbes - 2007 - 321 strani
...doctrinal character be part of the education of the young. (Not for them Jefferson's defiant claim that 'it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no God,' for they know that such neighbours create problems for educators.) Those who have not themselves had... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 strani
...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.26 While this last statement reveals much of Jefferson's own dismissal of anything like the Puritan's... | |
 | Alec G. Hargreaves, John Kelsay, Sumner B. Twiss - 2007 - 224 strani
...extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it [should do] me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."jt This doctrine of the sovereignty of conscience, so central to Jefferson's thinking, is forcefully... | |
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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. 
