"The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed."

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We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the Government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion both suffer by all such interference.

— Rutherford B. Hayes