 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.  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 209edited by - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...fuch atts only as are injurious to others. But ** it does me no injury for my neighbour to fay, *' there are twenty gods, or no god :— It neither *' picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. Ifitbefaid •*' that his teftimony, in a court of juftice, cannot " be relied on — reje£t it then,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...to fuch acts only as are .injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to fay ihere are twenty .Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be faid, his teftimony'in a court •of juftice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be ftigma on... | |
 | John Mitchell MASON (D.D.) - Lord's Supper - 1803 - 336 pages
...tend to such acts only as are injurious to '•' others. But it does me no injury for my " neighbours to say there are twenty Gods or " no God. It neither picks my pocket nor " breaks my leg *." • Ponder well this paragraph. Ten thousand impieties and mischiefs lurk in its womb. Mr, Jefferson... | |
 | James Cheetham - Political scientists - 1817 - 212 pages
...such acts only as are injurious to others^ But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say [that] there are twenty Gods or no God (#) It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. (A) Mr. Jefferson admits, that the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are injurious... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...in France and England, but also in America. The doctrine of" It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks uny pocket nor breaks my leg," was not peculiar to our illustrious author ; it had prevailed in France... | |
 | English literature - 1787 - 564 pages
...extend to fuch acts only at arc injurious to others. But it docs me no injury for my neighbour to fay there are twenty Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my lep. IF it be laid, his teftirnony in a court of jufHce cannot be relied on, reject it then, and let... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...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 neither...picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be said, bis testimony in a court of justice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him.... | |
 | Henry Bennet Brewster - Liberalism (Religion). - 1833 - 202 pages
...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...said, his testimony in a court of justice cannot be lelied.on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by making him a... | |
 | Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...well as the acts of the bod}-, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have no authority over such natural rights, only as we have...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... | |
 | American essays - 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...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... | |
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