James Madison Quotes About Christian Right
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Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.
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Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
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[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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