Last night, I was reading my copy of "The Portable Thomas Jefferson" when I came across a document that Jefferson had written in relation the concept of religious freedom in Virginia. The problem, Jefferson wrote, was the "impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others..."
This is only a portion of the whole sentence (when Jefferson gets going on something he sees as a threat to liberty, he gives up on periods in favor of his beloved semi-colons).
Now, who does that description apply to perfectly?