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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

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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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