Thomas Jefferson actually said...

I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found ...

The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.

We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use.

In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Gover...