Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.