Clergy Quote by Tim McDonald

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate…

— James Madison

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

— Voltaire

The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make…

— Orestes Brownson

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch…

— Thomas Jefferson

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

— Marquis de Lafayette

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

— Franz Grillparzer

“There exists indeed an opposition to it [ building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college ] by the friends of William and Mary, which is…

— Thomas Jefferson

“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!

— Pope Pius X

so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he…

— Anne Roe