Thomas Jefferson — "To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion a…"

To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty.
Thomas Jefferson — Thomas Jefferson Early Modern · US Founding Father, Declaration of Independence

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A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom

Date: 1779 (passed 1786)

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