 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such afts 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. If it be said, his testimony in a court of justice... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 pages
...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 there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Constraint may make him worse by making him a... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - 1848 - 616 pages
...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.... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - 1851 - 286 pages
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 632 pages
...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 there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be said, his testimony in a court of justice... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 626 pages
...Court, and eager in prying Into all its conncils and proceedings, gave me, a knowledge of thete alto* Jefferson is seen to have affected a reputation for...there was a God, he declared, "it does me no injury ftr my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods or one God." * " Voltaire's description of France," he... | |
 | 1872 - 810 pages
...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 are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Constraint makes hypocrites, not converts. A... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 pages
...saying : " The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts 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." The meaning and peculiar phraseology of this... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...saying: " The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as arc 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." The meaning and peculiar phraseology of this... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 698 pages
...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. 
