The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted in…

Thomas Jefferson
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The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.172, Cambridge University Press
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