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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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“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.”
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“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation”
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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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“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government”
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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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“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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