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.
US Founding Father, Declaration of Independence
Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVII: Religion
1785
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