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The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. George Washington I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. Thomas Jefferson I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Thomas Jefferson In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. Thomas Jefferson It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. Thomas Jefferson Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. Thomas Jefferson Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. James Madison In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. James Madison 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. James Madison In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue. Ethan Allen While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. Ethan Allen Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason. Ethan Allen If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. Marquis de Lafayette He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. Thomas Paine It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. Thomas Paine My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine My mind is my own church. Thomas Paine Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Thomas Paine One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. Thomas Paine Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Thomas Paine Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. Thomas Paine That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. Thomas Paine The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. Thomas Paine The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Thomas Paine The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. Thomas Paine There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. Thomas Paine Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? Douglas Adams If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. Napoleon Bonaparte Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Richard Burton The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window. Stephen King The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw