 | Chris Rodda - History - 2006 - 534 pages
...this quote was Rev. Linn's response to the following statement from Jefferson's Notes on Virginia. my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.1 David Barton, in his book The Myth of Separation, does mention that Serious Considerations was... | |
 | Walter Benn Michaels - Political Science - 2007 - 286 pages
...someone's faith the way Jefferson famously did when he remarked that "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 my neighbor's belief in God involves also, say, a belief that abortion is wrong, it does and it ought... | |
 | Will Morrisey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 294 pages
...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 hypocrite, but will never make him a truer man."... | |
 | George Ricker - Atheists - 2006 - 179 pages
...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." (Indeed, the remark came back to haunt Jefferson when he ran for president in 1800. His critics used... | |
 | E. B. Alston - Humor - 2006 - 184 pages
...few apt, but pungent, comments to make on the issue. I quote, "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." In the preamble to his famous statute for religious freedom in Virginia that passed in 1786, he stated,... | |
 | C. Wayne Owens - 2006 - 137 pages
...the elements, and owes no homage to the sun." -Sir Thomas Brown "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." -Thomas Jefferson "You don't have to be homely to get into heaven" -Hattie Denton ("The Rifleman")... | |
 | David L. Holmes - History - 2006 - 241 pages
...in 1785 and in England in 1787), contained certain passages that seemed to display him as a Deist. "It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god," Jefferson wrote in his chapter on religion. "It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." In addition... | |
 | Emily Griesinger, Mark A. Eaton - Literature, Modern - 2006 - 395 pages
...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" ("Notes on Virginia"). From such sentiments emerges the modern individualism that values freedom, negatively,... | |
 | Law - 2007 - 360 pages
...Jefferson mustered this argument in support of his calls for religious freedom and freedom of expression ("[I]t does me no injury for my neighbour to say there...god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." 98) without, however, connecting it to the broader question of the legitimacy of state punishment or... | |
 | Paul R. Abramson - Education - 2011 - 185 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 neighbour to say there...or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.1 Jefferson, I believe, is saying the following. The law has the capacity to coerce operations... | |
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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. 
