![Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing to name a fast day, he feared to 'disturb the security which religion now enjoys in this country, in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.'](/assets/img/quote-photos/total-separation-of-church-and-state-was-considered-the-best-safeguard-for-the-he.jpg)
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To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared. Edward Said
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I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time. Claire McCaskill
country mean doors
Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it. Clint Eastwood
country political different
I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know? Dylan Moran
country moving bullshit
It's such a bullshit move. Transparently so. It's obviously supposed to give succor to people who feel pissed off because someone from another country got a job that they feel should've been given to them. But that's what people voted against here. They voted against the movement of labor - that kind of fluidity - because they want a Britain that no longer exists, and they can't get it.
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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems e. e. cummings
country design attention
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone. E. B. White
country war bombs
The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.
country pay attention
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. Lee Krasner
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At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. Calvin Coolidge
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That government that governs least governs best. Thomas Jefferson
government newspapers
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.
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Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
government energetic free-government
A free government is of all others the most energetic.
government ifs presses
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
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Government governed least is government governed best.
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The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
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Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.