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• The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and state, but that wall is a one directional wall
  it keeps the government from running the church, but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government....
• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
  -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson....
• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of.
  My own mind is my own church. -- Thomas Paine...
• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of.
  My own mind is my own Church. -- Thomas Paine...
• Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views.
  His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot....
• DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not disdain to employ the humble allurement of human sacrifice.
  Very little is now known about the Druids and their faith....
• I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to ac
  and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him....
• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....
• The first Great Steward, Parrafin the Climber, was employed in King Chloroplast's kitchen as second scullery boy when the old King met a tragic death.
  He apparently fell backward by accident on a dozen salad forks....