“Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another”
Letter to Elbridge Gerry http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff10.txt (26 January 1799); published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition <!-- (ME) (Lipscomb and Bergh, editors) --> 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., 1903-04, Volume 10, p. 78 <br class="br">1790s <br class="br">Context: I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another, for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.
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