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“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)

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“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it”
John Adams quotes (American 2nd US President (1797-1801), 1735-1826)
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“There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”
George Washington quotes (American commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775-83) and subsequently 1st US President (1789-97), 1732-1799)
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“Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? Memorial and Remonstrance”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
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“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“The loathsome combination of Church and State”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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