James Russell Lowell Quotes about Church

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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

James Russell Lowell

Men, Humanity, Church

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

James Russell Lowell

Father, Men, Church

James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”