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“"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].”
faery13 Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.” Notes on Virginia
faery13 Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.”
faery13 James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
Stephen Roberts quotes
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“No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.”
George Bush quotes (American 41st US President (1989-93), b.1924)
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“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
Edmond de Goncourt quotes
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“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so”
Ernestine Rose quotes
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“There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.”
ozziesoo Robert Green Ingersoll quotes (American Statesman and Orator, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism. 1833-1899)
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“If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in”
Dan Fouts quotes (American Football Player. b.1951)
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“We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication”
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