The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
Thomas JeffersonReligious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.
Thomas JeffersonThe constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
Thomas JeffersonI deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.
Thomas Jefferson