The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions of the people, have become a very formidable engine against the civil rights and liberties of man.

US Founding Father, Declaration of Independence

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Letter to Thomas Cooper

Date / Period

1814

Category

Humorous

Source

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0196

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