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It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Thomas Paine |

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Thomas Fuller |

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Hazlitt |