No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler
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- Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
- For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
- Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
- The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
- The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.