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Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. -- Richard Mentor Johnson
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. -- Doc Hastings
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. -- Walter Scott
Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas. -- Luther Standing Bear
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts. -- Philip Sidney
I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances. -- Henry Clay
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions. -- Albert Camus

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