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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

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"Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."

Religious Rights Wall

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher

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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

Inspirational Religious Sad

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John Newton Clergyman, Hymn Writer

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"Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior."

Jesus Religious Memories

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Ada Lovelace Mathematician, Writer

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"The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole."

Religious Together Intellectual

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

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"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."

Christian Religious Wisdom

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Antonin Scalia Judge

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"With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists."

Religious Practice Atheist

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Franklin Pierce Politician

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"It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence."

Religious God Humble

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist

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"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste."

Religious Cutting Brother

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader

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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

Inspirational Religious Positive

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

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"If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world."

Children Religious Religion

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James Monroe Politician

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"The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty."

Religious Party Presidential

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Derek Prince Minister

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"The problem with most religious people is they try to earn grace but you can’t earn it. And as long as you’re trying to earn it by works, you don’t receive it. At some point you just have to stop trying to earn it and just receive it."

People Long Religious

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author

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"My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him."

Christian Religious God

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist

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"I don't want to believe. I want to know."

Inspirational Life Religious

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Brock Chisholm Psychiatrist

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"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas."

Religious Family Loyalty

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."

Religious Motivational Freedom

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic

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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

Life Religious Atheist

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Leon Trotsky Revolutionary, Politician

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"Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government."

Government Religious Ignorance

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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher

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"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil."

War Religious Liars

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Muhammad Religious Leader

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"God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts."

Religious God Mother Daughter

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