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I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

— James Buchanan

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What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

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Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

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I am the last President of the United States!

Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

The question fairly stated is, Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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