The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.
– Thomas Jefferson
Try telling that to a contemporary liberal or religious conservative and see how far you get. Our founders were right-winger Tea Party extremists after all. I mean hell, they threw the biggest Tea Party of all in Boston a ways back.
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