"Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty,……" — Joseph Howe

More Altars Quotes

This quote is filed under Altars Quotes, one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes… — William Hazlitt
• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could… — Alphonse de Lamartine
• He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace… — Peter Chrysologus
• If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be… — David Brewster
• I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for… — Robert Mapplethorpe
• Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of… — Adolf Hitler
• Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope
• Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest,… — Myrtle Reed
• In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;… — Edmund Burke
• The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across… — Wess Stafford
• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling… — Luther Standing Bear

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