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imprisonment quotes

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“I doubt whether the people of this country would suffer an execution for heresy, or a three years imprisonment for not comprehending the mysteries of the Trinity.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

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freedom religion institutions heresy

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1)
Thomas Jefferson (1)

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Notes on the State of Virginia (1)
Emile, or On Education (1)