If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of…

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

— Ron Chernow

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

— Gunter Grass

I knew religion from an early age.

— Rich Froning Jr

There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We have a…

— Jonathan Trigell

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are…

— Paul Harris

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political…

— Paul Harris

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first…

— Paul Harris

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan…

— Alice Morse Earle

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

— Orson Scott Card

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she…

— Tony Blair

In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront…

— William J. Duiker

I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights. In general, I would apply that…

— Julie Andrews

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables…

— Malcolm X

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing…

— George Osborne

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

— Daniel Radcliffe