new fortunes.

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@@ -40681,4 +40681,58 @@ As your true conduct, let the delusion of dualistic fixation collapse.
 As your true fruition, don’t seek the result that is spontaneously present.
   -- from "The Life of Longchenpa: The Omniscient Dharma King of the Vast
      Expanse", by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered
+as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded,
+that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers
+against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious
+persecution.
+  -- George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia (1789)
+~
+Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one,
+he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.
+  -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr (1787)
+~
+In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof
+is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by
+precept and example inculcated on mankind.
+  -- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1771)
+~
+Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the
+strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.  Take away the
+law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity.
+  -- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791)
+~
+Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.
+  -- Roger Sherman, Congress (1789)
+~
+The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
+  -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758)
+~
+I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people
+build a wall of separation between Church & State.
+  -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Danbury Baptists (1802)
+~
+To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering
+medicine to the dead.
+  -- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No.  V (1776)
+~
+Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than
+our opinions in physics or geometry.
+  -- Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779)
+~
+Christian establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which
+facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.
+  -- James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr.  (1774)
+~
+There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of
+science and literature.  Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of
+public happiness.
+  -- George Washington, address to Congress (1790)
+~
+During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity
+been on trial.  What has been its fruits?  More or less, in all places, pride
+and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both,
+superstition, bigotry and persecution.
+  -- James Madison, General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1785)