In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to libe…

Thomas Jefferson
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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. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2011). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814, p.248, Princeton University Press
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