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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 in blood fo...more

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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 in blood fo...more

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Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no dou...more

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establi...more

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.]