United States Senate Report
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."
Mark 12:17 United States Senate Report
On the Question of Sunday Mails
EXTENSIVE religious combinations to effect a political object are . . . always dangerous. This first effort of the kind calls for the establishment of a principle which . . . would lay the foundation for dangerous innovations upon the spirit of the Constitution and upon the religious rights of the citizens. If admitted, it may be justly apprehended that the future measures of the government will be strongly marked, if not eventually controlled, by the same influence. All religious despotism commences by combination and influence; and when that influence begins to operate upon the political institutions of a country, the civil power soon bends under it, and the catastrophe of other nations furnishes an awful warning of the consequence." "If any man hear My sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not."
John 12:47