"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote--where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference--and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him." - John F. Kennedy , U.S. President

"Is God something that exists 'out there," beyond, and independent of us? Or is God merely the product of an inherited human perception, the manifestation of an evolutionary adaptation, a coping mechanism that emerged in our species in order to enable us to survive our unique and otherwise debilitating awareness of death? -- "The God Part of the Brain"" - Matthew Alper

"All totalitarianism begin in a perception of social imbalance. All begin by promising to set things right. If all they promised was terror and moral chaos, no one would give them toe-room....totalitarianism comes from a failure of the human imagination–our failure to imagine each human being as fully human, as human as we are. " - Margaret Atwood , Canadian novelist

Strongly guarded . . . is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States. - President James Madison [ more quotes ] ©2010 HNPS. All rights reserved.