What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity..

One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better..

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potentia….

The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law respect….

Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any Supreme Court….

In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life….

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood..