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Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
William J. Brennan
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We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.
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After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
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The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.
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The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.
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