Re separation of church and state, here is T. Jeff exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.” Letter to the Danbury Baptists, January 1, 1802 “[E]very one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the U.S. and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.” Letter to Rev. Samuel Miller, January 23, 1808 “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” Notes on the State of Virginia , 1781 – 1785“… I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free