 | Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, Jonathan D. Sarna - 2002 - 396 strani
...is true that in Notes on the State of Virginia he claimed 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." But Jefferson's neighbor's religious opinion, and his tolerance of it, was an insufficient ground for... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2002 - 238 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." Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn has called the statute "the most important document in American history,... | |
 | Loren P. Beth - 2002 - 192 strani
...makes no difference to me if he is otherwise a good neighbor. "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."17 "The Religion ... of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man;... | |
 | James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 2002 - 460 strani
...religious enquiries," they should read histories of Greece, Rome, Europe, and America. His remark that "it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god" because it "neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg" revealed not tolerance but flagrant disregard... | |
 | Carol Weisbrod - 2009 - 233 strani
...revised by R. Irene Garrett (Horse Cave, Ky.: New Leben, 1998), 38. ** Gutmann, Democratic Education. there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.""0 This idea of course is underneath the action/belief dichotomy in the field of church and state.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 strani
...307) CHAPTER 15 1782 Religion Notes on the State of Virginia. 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. 1782 Notes on the State of Virginia. (WTJIII,263) Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men,... | |
 | William Lee Miller - 2003 - 300 strani
...but from his Notes on the State of l'irginia:"Uut it does me no injury for my neighbour to say that there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The orthodox have historically responded: But it does do me and my children and my neighbors and the... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - 2003 - 396 strani
...such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there arc twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The lawyer in Jefferson insisted that a distinction be drawn between belief and action; the state can... | |
 | F. Forrester Church - 2004 - 182 strani
...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....testimony in a court of justice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite,... | |
 | Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - 2004 - 340 strani
...injurious to others. Then came the pithy sentence that would later cause him so much political grief. "But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there...god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."* Jefferson was attempting to differentiate between the sphere of activity appropriate to civil government... | |
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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. 
