What is one of the more famous Thomas Jefferson quotes on the separation of church and state?
Here are a few quotes regarding Thomas Jefferson’s views on the separation of church and state. “Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my god and myself alone.”– Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, 11 January 1817, in Lester Cappon, ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters, (1959) p. 506, quoted from Jeremy Koselak, “The Exaltation of a Reasonable Deity: Thomas Jefferson’s Critique of Christianity” “I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know”.– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Ezra Stiles Ely (June 25, 1819), quoted from Dickinson W Adams, ed, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series (Princeton University Press, 1983; note that attributions saying “Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University (June 25, 1819)” are incorrect, as that Ezra Stiles died in 1795) “What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong”.– Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Axiom, in a letter to John Adams, 11 January 1817, quoted from Lester Cappon, ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters
