If it be said, his testimony in a court of justice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. In response to a question about the various religious groups that had made their way into Virginia, Jefferson wrote: The completed work was first published anonymously in Paris in 1785 the first English edition appeared in London in 1787. Initially finished in 1781 (with additional updates in 17), the book was presented in a format which had Jefferson responding to questions about Virginia which had been posed to him in 1780 by François Barbé-Marbois, the Secretary of the French delegation at Philadelphia. Notes on the State of Virginia was the only full-length book by Thomas Jefferson which was published during his lifetime. If the people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in a sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. Is this really him and in what context did he say it? President Thomas Jefferson was circulated in June 2012 in response to then-President Barack Obama's healthcare law.
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