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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore (search), who has fought to keep a Ten Commandments (search) monument in the state's judicial building, vowed Thursday that the battle 'to defend our constitutional right to acknowledge God must and will continue.'
Moore Vows to Fight to Acknowledge God
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
--Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 1813. ME 14:21
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose
--Thomas Jefferson, Letters to the Methodist Episcopal Church at New London, Connecticut, Feb. 4, 1809.
August 23, 2003
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