Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [not our?] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society. | |
— George Washington, | |
First President of the United States in a letter to Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, June 22, 1792 | |
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