“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.”
         ~John Adams

“We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.”
         ~John Adams, letter to Dr. Price, April 8, 1785

“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
        ~Benjamin Franklin, 1783

“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?”
         ~Benjamin Franklin

“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance.”
         ~Thomas Jefferson, April 19, 1803


“Conscience is the most sacred of all property.”
         ~James Madison, Essay on Property, National Gazette,
        29 March 1792

“All men are, by nature, born equally free and independent.”
         ~George Mason, 1776


“We came into this world as equals and as equals shall we go out of it.”
         ~George Mason, 1776

“Labor to keep in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
         ~George Washington

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