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Quotes from Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments — James Madison

1751–1836 United States

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We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785)

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785)

It is moreover to weaken in those who profess this Religion a pious confidence in its innate excellence and the patronage of its Author; and to foster in those who still reject it, a suspicion that its friends are too conscious of its fallacies to trust it to its own merits.

Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785)

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