John M Swomley quotes
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“[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even longer heritage of church-state problems in Europe.”
-- John M SwomleySource : John M. Swomley (1987). “Religious liberty and the secular state: the constitutional context”
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“By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches to which they do not belong and of their own members who do not welcome being forced to contribute through government taxation.”
-- John M SwomleySource : John M. Swomley, Americans for Religious Liberty (1997). “Confronting church and state: memoirs of an activist”
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“Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.”
-- John M SwomleySource : John M. Swomley (1968). “Religion, the State & the Schools”, New York : Pegasus
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“Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.”
-- John M SwomleySource : John M. Swomley (1987). “Religious liberty and the secular state: the constitutional context”
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“Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.”
-- John M SwomleySource : John M. Swomley (1987). “Religious liberty and the secular state: the constitutional context”
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“Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather than make government more ethical or religious.”
-- John M SwomleySource : John M. Swomley (1987). “Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context”
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“This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.”
-- John M Swomley
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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
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Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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Source : Alan Furst (2010). “Spies of the Balkans: A Novel”, p.4, Random House