The opinions of men are not the object of civil government nor under its jurisdiction. –

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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government nor under its jurisdiction. –

-- Thomas Jefferson

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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry…

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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