James Madison Quotes About First Amendment
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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