The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws. — George Washington Copy Share Image
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? — John Adams Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth —… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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