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union exists between church and state,
and perfect freedom of opinion is guaran-
teed to all sects and creeds.— Inaugural
Address.
Zachary Taylor.— With the aid of that
overruling Providence which has so long
and so kindly guarded our liberties and
institutions, we may reasonably expect
to transmit them, with their innumerable
blessings, to the remotest posterity.
— First Annual Message, Dec. 4, 1849.
Millard Fillmore. — It is certain that
neither by law, nor by treaty, nor by any
other official proceeding is it competent
for the government of the United States
to establish any distinction between its
citizens founded on differences in religious
beliefs. Any benefit or privilege conferred
by law or treaty on one must be common to all.—
“Messages and Papers of the Presidents,” Vol. 5, p. 99.
Franklin Pearce. — Recognizing the wisdom of
the broad principle of absolute religious toleration
proclaimed in our fundamental law, and rejoicing
in the benign influence which it has exerted upon our
social and political condition, I should shrink from
a clear duty did I fail to express my deepest con-
viction that we can place no secure reliance upon any
apparent progress if it be not sustained by national
integrity, resting upon the great truths affirmed and
illustrated by divine revelation.— First Annual
Message, Dec. 5, 1853.
James Buchanan.—1 feel an humble confidence
that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers
with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of
government and union ever devised by man will
not suffer it to perish until it shall have been peace-
fully instrumental, by its example, in the extension
of civil and religious liberty throughout the world.—
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1857.
Abraham Lincoln.— Those who deny freedom to
others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a
just God, cannot long retain it.— Letter to H. L.
Pierce, et al., April 6, 1859, Addresses and Letters,
Vol. 1, page 532.
Andrew Johnson.— Here religion, released from
political connection with the civil government,
refuses to subserve the craft of statesmen, and be-
comes in its independence the spiritual life of the
people. Here toleration is extended to every opinion,
in the quiet certainty that truth needs only a fair
field to secure the victory.—First Annual Message,
Dec. 4, 1865.
Ulysses S. Grant.— Let us all labor to add all
needful guaranties for the more perfect security
of free thought, free speech and free press, pure
morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of
equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective
of nationality, color, or religion.—*‘Words of Our
Hero,” page 3I.
Rutherford B. Hayes.—We all agree that neither
government nor political parties] ought to interfere
with religious sects. It is equally true that religious
sects ought not to interfere with the government or
political parties. We believe that the cause of good
government and the cause of religion both suffer
by all such interferences.—‘‘Life of Rutherford B.
Hayes,” page 253.
James A. Garfield.— Qur fathers considered the
rights of conscience, the freedom of (Cont. on page 33)
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