 | Florida State Bar Association - 1922 - 424 páginas
...submit, we are answerable for them to 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 that there are twenty Gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. It might be said... | |
 | Frederick Joseph Kinsman - 1924 - 268 páginas
...We \ are answerable for these to our God. The legitimate / powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no...neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. If ' neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be said, his testimony in a court of justice... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1926 - 638 páginas
...Roman history. He has impiously written in his Notes "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are twenty Gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." But it is not in his book alone that his hatred of Christ and His Church is betrayed. His daily speech... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 páginas
...submit. We are answerable for them to 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 neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If... | |
 | 1872 - 898 páginas
...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...God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Constraint makes hypocrites, not converts. A government is no more competent to prescribe beliefs than... | |
 | James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 2002 - 460 páginas
...impious passage" justifying the proposal in his Notes on the State of Virginia, where he contended that "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there...god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." "Good God!" exclaimed one indignant writer, "is this the man the patriots have cast their eyes on as... | |
 | Loren P. Beth - 2002 - 192 páginas
...neighbor's beliefs will take him to Hell, that makes no difference to me if he is otherwise a good neighbor. "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there...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;... | |
 | Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, Jonathan D. Sarna - 2002 - 396 páginas
..."The legitimate powers of government," Jefferson wrote in his Notes on Virginia, extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no...for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."25 While certainly not hostile to religion, Jefferson and Madison believed that religious divisions... | |
 | Carol Weisbrod - 2009 - 233 páginas
...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 páginas
...silent but unresisting anguish. (MCMIV, 307) CHAPTER 15 1782 Religion Notes on the State of Virginia. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there...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,... | |
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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. 
