 | Henry Bennet Brewster - 1833 - 202 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 ray neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 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...God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite, but it will never make him a truer man. It... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - 1848 - 616 páginas
...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 for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God." While the argument rests only in words, it would be so evanescent that it might be no injury. But when... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - 1851 - 286 páginas
...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 for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God.' While the argument rests only in words, it would be so evanescent that it might be no injury. But when... | |
 | 1872 - 810 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 páginas
...Mason quotes Mr. Jefferson as saying : " The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury...God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The meaning and peculiar phraseology of this sentence are sufficiently explained in vol. i. pp. 370,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 páginas
...quotes Mr. Jefferson as saying: " The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as arc injurious to others. But it does me no injury for...God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The meaning and peculiar phraseology of this sentence are sufficiently explained in vol. i. pp. 370,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 760 páginas
...of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it docs me no injury for ray 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 are sufficiently explained in vol. i. pp. 370,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 726 páginas
...submit. We aro answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government tztend to inch acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for wy ntiqkk-r to say there are tieenty godx, or no God. It neither 'picks my pocket nor Irtaki on leg.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 698 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
