Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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-- Thomas Jefferson

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

-- 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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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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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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