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" It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. "

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" I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. "

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" Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. "

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" All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. "

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