FIRST AMENDENT TO THE CONSTITUTION 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. The
Declaration of Independence JOHN
ADAMS’ A DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA James Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments . [1785] The Thomas Jefferson Papers - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) Federalist Papers The Treaty of Tripoli Art. 11. 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; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan 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. |
    
Mind Without FearWhere the mind is without fear and the head
is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up
into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of
truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms
towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the dreary desert
sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into
ever-widening thought and action--- Into that heaven of
freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore - Gitanjali
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