Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecut…

Thomas Jefferson
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Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, p.212, Princeton University Press
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Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, p.212, Princeton University Press

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