Amity Quote by Edwin Gaustad

A good deed is a good deed.

— John Lee Hancock

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

— Jeremy Bentham

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a…

— Adolf Hitler

The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice,…

— Baruch Spinoza

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

— Anonymous

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

— Desmond Tutu

My principles in respect of religious interest are two,--one is, that the Church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall not meddle…

— Lajos Kossuth

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things,…

— Steven Weinberg

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled…

— James Madison

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

— Seneca the Younger

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths,…

— George Washington