| Roland Adickes - 2017 - 175 pages
...about forced contributions to the church established by the state of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson said: to compel a man to furnish contributions of money...for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.... ... the opinions of men are not the subject of civil government,... | |
| Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 pages
...would deny all power to the government to provide financial support for religious teaching, arguing that "to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he dishelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.1'214 Finally, Jefferson departed from Locke's views... | |
| Preston D. Graham - 2002 - 332 pages
...this regard, hath established and maintained false religions over the greater part of the world in all time. That to compel a man to furnish contributions...which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical. That to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the yield of opinion is a dangerous fallacy... | |
| Larry Witham - 2005 - 356 pages
...problematic for the teaching of evolution, let alone sectarian religion, in tax-supported schools: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money...for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."27 By unseating the religious elites, Jefferson also sought to... | |
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