Thomas Jefferson: Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State.
Sharon Angle: Thomas Jefferson has been misquoted on church and state.
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Thomas Jefferson: The priests of the different religious sects dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter […] we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this
Sharon Angle: Thomas Jefferson has been misquoted on church and state.
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