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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
– Thomas Jefferson

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  2. Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. – Thomas Jefferson
  3. The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. – Sunday Adelaja
  4. The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government. – Thomas Jefferson
  5. We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. – Thomas Jefferson
  6. Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you – Sunday Adelaja
  7. All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. – Mahavira
  8. It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. – Tariq Ali
  9. Even though God rules in the affairs of men, yet the earth is not God’s jurisdiction. – Sunday Adelaja
  10. I’m afraid your literary prizes don’t give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir. – Lizzie K Foley
  11. History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson
  12. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. – Thomas Jefferson
  13. The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. – Thomas Jefferson
  14. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground. – Thomas Jefferson
  15. We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. – Thomas Jefferson
  16. Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. – Elizabeth Warren
  17. Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will. – Otto Weininger
  18. It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them. – Richelle E Goodrich
  19. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell
  20. I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
  21. someone asked: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?and i said(object): i give up..!!! – paradox
  22. The idea of formulated ‘rights … comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson … but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. – Thomas E Woods Jr
  23. The only time you’ve been under me is when I’ve been inside of you and even then, you’re never truly under me. I always remain under you. – Kenya Wright
  24. Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. – Brennan Manning
  25. So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about. – Stephen L Carter
  26. Opinions are many, but there is only one truth. Don’t get lost in opinions. – Debasish Mridha MD
  27. If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good – Ezra Pound
  28. The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor. – Bryant McGill
  29. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion. – Thomas Jefferson
  30. The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.–The Fruit Hunters – Thomas Jefferson
  31. The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson
  32. A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds. – Gilles Deleuze
  33. In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship. – Shunryu Suzuki
  34. Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that? – Jefferson Smith
  35. I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality – Mahatma Gandhi
  36. Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome. – Jefferson Smith
  37. Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things. – George F Will
  38. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  39. Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald. – Harold Holzer
  40. A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master. – John R Dallas Jr

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