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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his… — Thomas Jefferson
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results… — Thomas Jefferson
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,… — George Washington
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. — Agnes Repplier
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood… — Winston Churchill
I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person… — George W. Bush
I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought… — George W. Bush
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and… — Abraham Lincoln
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. — Abraham Lincoln
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up. — Aristotle
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into… — Winston Churchill
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of… — Dan Barker
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it… — Louis D. Brandeis
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe. — Clement of Alexandria
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who… — Tertullian
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain… — Abraham Lincoln
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get rid of unionized… — Newt Gingrich
It is not your work to make anything happen. It's your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it… — Esther Hicks
The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is. — Neale Donald Walsch
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We… — Rose Macaulay

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