Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more t…

Thomas Jefferson
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Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. ✨ B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait, p.138
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