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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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

-- 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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The dead should not rule the living

-- 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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A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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