Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.