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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 23, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 4.

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Freedom of Religion Without Coercion

By Thomas Jefferson

Almighty God hath created the mind free; all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion, who, being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercion on either, as was in His almighty power to do.—Thomas Jefferson.