Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-10-03 Oct 3, 2002The 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 Oct 2, 2002The 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 Oct 1, 2002The 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 JeffersonOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.~ Thomas Jefferson Sep 30, 2002In 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. RothbardOf all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.~ Thomas Paine Sep 27, 2002We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, that religion, or the duty we owe our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right.~ James Madison Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print