Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-02-28 Feb 28, 2001The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state -- it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.~ Dumas MaloneMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.~ Blaise Pascal Feb 27, 2001The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.~ Abraham LincolnThe day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonLet us revise our views and work from the premise that all laws should be for the welfare of society as a whole and not directed at the punishment of sins.~ John Biggs Jr.Remember, there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.~ Frank Zappa Feb 26, 2001I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.~ Thomas PaineOf all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.~ Thomas Paine Feb 23, 2001The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.~ Thomas JeffersonIn every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.~ Thomas JeffersonOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.~ Thomas Jefferson Feb 22, 2001In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds -- that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonIt is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.~ Murray N. Rothbard Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print