"You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."

God, Belief, Conflict, Divorce

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"You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."

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"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

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"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

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"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."

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