 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 sidor
...our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such afts 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 it be said, his testimony in a court of justice cannot... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 sidor
...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. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite,... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - 1848 - 616 sidor
...them to our Cod." But I should hesitate long in pushing the argument as far as he does, by saying, as he does, that "in its exercise, it does me no injury...when it comes to be put in print, to be read, like Paiue's Age of Reason, by the young and the unwary, where is the parent who would say, " it does me... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - 1851 - 286 sidor
...them to our God ! ' But I should hesitate long in pushing the argument as far as he does by saying, as he does, that in its exercise 'it does me no injury...when it comes to be put in print to be read, like Fame's Age of Reason, by the young and the tm« wary, where is the parent who would say ' It does me... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 632 sidor
...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 it be said, his testimony in a court of justice cannot... | |
 | 1872 - 810 sidor
...controversy into a few pages. Opinion, he says, is something with which government has nothing to do. " 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." Constraint makes hypocrites, not converts. A government... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 sidor
...saying : " 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." The meaning and peculiar phraseology of this sentence... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 sidor
...saying: " The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as arc 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 meaning and peculiar phraseology of this sentence... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 698 sidor
...God. The legitimate powers of government exltnd to »MC/I acts only as are injurious to others. £ut it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gnds, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor bnala .«» ley. If it be said his testimony in a court... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 596 sidor
...no barrier to his success. In his Notes on Virginia, while he admitted there was a God, he declared, "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods or one God." * " Voltaire's description of France," he wrote, " is a true picture of that country to which,... | |
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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. 
