"The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills."
"The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness."
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Source: Dumas Malone (1951). “Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson and the rights of man”
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