James Madison Quotes About Religious Bigotry
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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 establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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