Anonymous ID: 4df540 May 22, 2018, 8:46 p.m. No.1513725   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3796

โ€œBut our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to 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 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 cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite, but it will never make him a truer man. It may fix him obstinately in his errors, but will not cure them. Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error.โ€

โ€• Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

Anonymous ID: 4df540 May 22, 2018, 8:48 p.m. No.1513760   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

โ€œGovernment is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.โ€

โ€• John Adams