Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability …

Thomas Jefferson
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Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.388
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