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I love Founding fathers quotes. Let me get in on that.

We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.
Founding FatherJohn Adams letter to Dr. Price, April 8, 1785

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
James Madison Letter to Wm. Bradford, April 1, 1774

In every country and in 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 error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Horatio Spofford, 1814

The civil government functions with complete success by the total separation of the Church from the State.
Founding Father James Madison, 1819, Writings, 8:432

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?
John Adams

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obligated to call for help of the civil power, its a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Benjamin Franklin letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

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