The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Thomas Babington MacaulayThe transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
Vladimir PutinTrue Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
Henry Cabot LodgeReligion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. WashburnThe difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Minna AntrimCatholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna CicconeTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Ralph Inge