#totally correct 1789 quotes

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Ronan: *pointing at the king* Uh...which Louis is this again?

Camille: The sixteenth.

Ronan: Oh. Damn.

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Incorrect 1789 Quotes 5/?

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Church & State: Founding Fathers

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

- First Amendment - U.S. Constitution {see complete text here}

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

- Clause 3, Article Six of the United States Constitution {see complete text here}

James Madison Madison originally penned the provision concerning religion to read: ''The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretense, infringed.'' The House of Representatives proposed an edit to read: ''Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or to prevent the free exercise thereof, or to infringe the rights of conscience.'' In a conference committee with the House, Senate, and Madison, we are given the final wording as seen above.

“It was the Universal opinion of the Century preceding the last, that Civil Government could not stand without the prop of a religious establishment; and that the Christian religion itself, would perish if not supported by the legal provision for its clergy. The experience of Virginia conspicuously corroborates the disproof of both opinions. The Civil Government, tho' bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability and performs its functions with complete success; whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the TOTAL SEPARATION OF THE CHURCH FROM THE STATE.” [James Madison, as quoted in Robert L. Maddox: Separation of Church and State; Guarantor of Religious Freedom]

Thomas Jefferson “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.” [Jefferson in a Letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jan. 1. 1802.]

"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth. ... Our sister states of Pennsylvania and New York, however, have long subsisted without any establishment at all. The experiment was new and doubtful when they made it. It has answered beyond conception. They flourish infinitely. Religion is well supported; of various kinds, indeed, but all good enough; all sufficient to preserve peace and order: or if a sect arises, whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play, and reasons and laughs it out of doors, without suffering the state to be troubled with it. They do not hang more malefactors than we do. They are not more disturbed with religious dissensions. On the contrary, their harmony is unparalleled, and can be ascribed to nothing but their unbounded tolerance, because there is no other circumstance in which they differ from every nation on earth. They have made the happy discovery, that the way to silence religious disputes, is to take no notice of them. Let us too give this experiment fair play, and get rid, while we may, of those tyrannical laws.” [Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787]

John Adams “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Mohammedan) nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.” [Act 11, Treaty of Tripoli, June 7, 1797] {See complete text here}

George Washington "...the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction." [George Washington, 1789, responding to clergy complaints that the Constitution lacked mention of Jesus Christ, from The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness, Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore W.W. Norton and Company 101-102]

"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society." [George Washington, Letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792]

Side Note:

It is believed by most historians that the majority of the US Founding Fathers were Deists. They believed that God created the world and allowed it to operate according to natural laws. Deists believed God did not intervene in the lives of his human creation, did not perform miracles, answer prayer, or sustain the world by his providence. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin frequently included Deist philosophies in their writings.

“Deism, an unorthodox religious attitude that found expression among a group of English writers beginning with Edward Herbert (later 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury) in the first half of the 17th century and ending with Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in the middle of the 18th century. These writers subsequently inspired a similar religious attitude in Europe during the second half of the 18th century and in the colonial United States of America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In general, Deism refers to what can be called natural religion, the acceptance of a certain body of religious knowledge that is inborn in every person or that can be acquired by the use of reason and the rejection of religious knowledge when it is acquired through either revelation or the teaching of any church.” [Encyclopaedia Britannica, Deism, Frank Edward Manuel, David A. Pailin, Nov 01, 2017]

source: ThoughtCo, Top James Madison Quotes on Religion, by Austin Cline, Updated January 19, 2018 https://www.thoughtco.com/top-james-madison-quotes-on-religion-4072173

Library of Congress, Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jan. 1, 1802 https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html

University of Virginia Library, Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, 1787 http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2046208#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=13&xywh=-375%2C-294%2C4756%2C5874

The Avalon Project  at Yale Law School, The Barbary Treaties : Treaty of Peace and Amity, Signed at Tripoli, June 4, 1805 https://web.archive.org/web/20080215092040/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1805t.htm

The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness, Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore W.W. Norton and Company, August 2005 https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=7998

National Archives, Letter From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 20 October 1792 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-11-02-0132

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Deism, Frank Edward Manuel, David A. Pailin, Nov 01, 2017 https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Founding-Fathers-Deism-and-Christianity-1272214

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Camille: We're doing our best!

Solène, brandishing a rolling pin: I think the fuck not.

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Camille: Maxime, this is my fiancée, Lucile.

Maxime: Lucile. I'm meeting you now for the first time. How nice.

Lucile: He climbed through our kitchen window three nights ago, stole an orange, and climbed back out.

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Olympe: Ronan, we are at a FUNERAL! A child's funeral!

Ronan: So...is that a no then?

Olympe: I...didn't say that.

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Ronan: I’m gonna live forever!

Solène: How do you figure?

Ronan: I’m too dumb to die.

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Ronan: Aww, look at this cute dog video I found!

Lazare: That's literally just a video of Robespierre with a rubber ball.

Ronan: Nuance.

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Robespierre: My New Years resolution is to be nice to people.

Danton: Maxime, it's March.

Robespierre: No one asked you! So, how am I doing?

Danton: ...Great...

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Ronan: We're starving!

Lazare: Well shit, man! What do you want me to do about it?

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Ronan: Solène, are you mad at me?

Solène: I'm not mad. I'm just a little disappointed.

Ronan: Oh god...

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Robespierre: Ronan, what the fuck are you doing?

Ronan: *stuffing another piece of paper in his mouth* Camille said I should consume as much knowledge as possible while I’m on this earth. I thought it was a little weird, but...

Robespierre: *wordless screaming*

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Danton: Desmoulins, come get your rage-rat.

Desmoulins: I don’t...I don’t have a chihuahua.

Ronan & Robespierre: *together* He means me, damnit!

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Danton: I've toyed with the idea of becoming a professional mourner.

Desmoulins: What?

Danton: You know, pocket a couple hundred and throw myself over the casket, wailing like a banshee.

Robespierre: You don't even have to pay me. I'll do it at your funeral for free.

[lehetsz-kiraly]

Robespierre: When I give someone a recipe, I expect them to follow it!

Desmoulins: *confused* You told me, and I quote, "Peel the orange with a knife and hand it to me."

Robespierre: And did you? NO!

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Camille: What've you got there?

Ronan: A KNIFE!

Camille: Noooo!