America Quote by Calvin Coolidge

“Above all, we cannot and should not try to distance ourselves from any of these inquisitions by reassuring ourselves that no abuse of 'moral…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“Precisely because the Inquisition provides a blueprint for building and operating the machinery of persecution...the Inquisition was and still is a danger to human…

— Jonathan Kirsch

I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever…

— Edward Kennedy

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion,…

— Thomas Jefferson

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a…

— Voltaire

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

— Neil Innes

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

— Anonymous

“By its vigilance and by coordinating its efforts throughout the peninsula, it may be argued that the Inquisition checked the seeds of heresy before…

— Henry Kamen

“Both defenders and opponents of the Inquisition have often accepted without question the image of an omniscient, omnipotent tribunal whose fingers reached into every…

— Henry Kamen

“There is no doubt that the Inquisition discouraged free thinking and inhibited change in Spain.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“The similarities between the Inquisition interrogation regime and the role of the C.I.A. in the twenty-first century are chilling.”

— Melvin A. Goodman

It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for…

— Laurence Sterne