Always Quote by Lord George Gordon

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses…

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

— Viggo Mortensen

“Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the…

— John Foxe

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

“This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“In fact, properly speaking, no parish priest has any convictions on politics. At the back of his mind, he regards the state as an…

— Liam O'Flaherty

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so…

— Blaise Pascal

And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees…

— Georg Ganswein

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

— Edward Gibbon

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

— Pope Francis

All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible,…

— Pope Leo XIII

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

— David Hume