"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."
-- President Thomas Jefferson: in letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813
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Robert Heinlein said, "Jefferson tried to give us a free society, but they caught him at it." But he was indeed wise.
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