Anne Royall Quotes

#1. Good work instead of long prayers.

Anne Royall

#2. Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

Anne Royall

#3. Free thought, free speech and a free press.

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#4. [G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

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#5. May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

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#6. I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.

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#7. In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

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