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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.