I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or …

Thomas Jefferson
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1943). Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction
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