Unspun™ » Quotes http://unspun.us Just what the spin doctor ordered™ Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:06:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A Priest-Ridden People http://unspun.us/quotes/a-priest-ridden-people/ http://unspun.us/quotes/a-priest-ridden-people/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:27:02 +0000 Rick http://unspun.us/?p=529

History furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Alexander von Humboldt (1813), in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson vol. 14, p. 21 (Lipscomb and Bergh, eds. 1904).

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                                                                  — Tribe, American Constitutional Law (2d ed. 1988) at p. 768.

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