Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments would consequently be able to pass along this savings in the form of lowered rents. It could have a profoundly salubrious effect on the entire economy.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

I was overwhelmed by the number of calls we got from people offering to rent us houses, to take us out to dinner, to drive us around house hunting. Everyone was just indescribably kind in Havaii. Finally we moved into a house offered to us for an incredible $125 a month by a man who feels that the separation of church and state is a valid constitutional issue which should be fought for.

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.