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“Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.”

World Country Political Universe Religious Media Fields Members Highest Mass Intellectual Research Rate Stupidity Artistic Appeals Scholar Judicial Moron Mass Media Best Place

Author:William C. Brown

“The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.”

Men Country Political Religion Nations Religious Mark Sentiments Denominations Liberality

Book:The Papers of George Washington

Source: The Papers of George Washington

“This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.”

“In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.”

Source: Democracy in America: Book One

“In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases, will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of People comprehended under the same Government.”

People May Country Government Interest Religious Numbers Cases Rights Security Depends Degrees Civil Rights Sects Multiplicity Free Government Religious Rights

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.”

Knows May Country Suffering Lost Religious Liberty Duty Conscience Cowardice Religious Faith

Book:The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California

Source: The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California

“His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

“I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.”

Ifs Country Today America Beautiful Church Religious White Racism Standing Skins Bigotry Yellow Presbyterians Unification Beautiful Country Religious Bigotry Unification Church

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.”

Country Desire Religious Powerful Atheism Identity Majority Positive Atheism Religious Identity

Author:Jack Balkin

“Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.”

People Country Religious Atheism Atheist Positive Atheism Discourse Religious Faith Public Discourse

Author:Al Gore

“The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.”

Country Age Religious Moral Atheism Teaching Development Higher Positive Atheism

Book:The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

Source: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

“If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.”

Ifs Men Country Religious Support One Thing Atheism Willing Office Crosses Positive Atheism Religious Freedom Negation

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.”

Thinking I Can Country Religious Lines Greater Atheism Positive Atheism Disaster Voters Divides

Author:Al Smith

“Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.”

Country Christian Religious Liberty Policy Denial Religious Liberty

Author:Bob Abernethy