"History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith."
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"We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person "to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion." Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs."
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"I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States."
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"As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government."
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"What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government."
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