1From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Holt Rice, 10 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The principle that every religious sect is to maintain it’s own teachers and institutions is too reasonable and too well established in our country to need justification. I have been, from my infancy a member of the Episcopalian church, and to that I owe and make my contributions. were I to go beyond that limit in favor of any other sectarian institution, I should be equally bound to do so for...