Thomas Jefferson Quote on Liberty and Religion

„In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the Despot abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.“

John AdamsThomas Jefferson on priests' hostility to liberty and alliance with despots.
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John Adams was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the second President of the United States from 1797 to 1801.

This quote by Thomas Jefferson criticizes the close alliance between religious authority and political power, which often suppresses liberty.


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Quote on liberty and religion by Thomas Jefferson

John Adams (1735–1826) was a prominent American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father. He was the second President of the United States and played a crucial role in the Declaration of Independence and the shaping of the U.S. Constitution.

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"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals." Samuel Adams
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Quote by Marquis de LaFayette about the threat to liberties by Roman Catholic Jesuit priestsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country – the United States of America – are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated MOST of the wars of Europe." Marquis de LaFayette
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Quote by R. W. Thompson about Jesuits and their influenceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"[The Jesuits] are the deadly enemies of civil and religious liberty. [The Jesuit General] occupies the place of God, and must be obeyed, howsoever the peace and welfare of the multitude may be imperiled, or the nations be convulsed from center to circumference. The society of Jesuits must obtain the mastery, even if general anarchy shall prevail, or all the world besides be covered with the fragments of a universal wreck! R. W. Thompson (Ex-Secretary, American Navy)" R. W. Thompson
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