...symbol or the hearing of the name of God does not establish a religion. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, ". . .it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there...god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." The mere sight of a religious symbol is neither religion itself nor the establishment of religion....

...at all, because our government must never be transformed into an instrument or agency of any faith. "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there...God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg," wrote Jefferson, who was so proud of having realized that libertarian conception of religion that he...

...forceful statements on the rights of conscience, the established clergy felt his hostility, as in: "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there...or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."6 In the election year of 1800, Jefferson rendered that hostility into unmistakable imagery when...

...history of the world. W; •HEN Thomas Jefferson, in his famous Notes on the State of Virginia, wrote, "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god," he was stating two extreme positions summoned by his imagination. A colleague of his in the committee...

...those whose concept of "God" includes many gods nevertheless have the right to freedom of conscience: "[I]t does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."39 As regards Benjamin Franklin's perspective on the matter, one of his biographers has noted:...

...— and remarkable achievement — of liberal politics is well summarized in Jefferson's formulation: "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Anti-discrimination directly challenges this important...

..."the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god." Here the atheist is to be tolerated along with the polytheist, even though both adhere to views that...

...Boyd, Paper* of Tliomas Jefferson, 2:545-46. 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 The neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg...

...Virginia, Jefferson made the point very clearly: The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no...my leg. If it be said his testimony in a court of law cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by...

...freedom of conscience on the basis that "[t]he legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury...neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be sa1d, his testimony in a court of justice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on...