Solomon2
BANNED
- Joined
- Dec 12, 2008
- Messages
- 19,475
- Reaction score
- -37
- Country
- Location
"...There is no middle way possible: either you admit a national religion, subject all your laws to it, arm it with temporal power, exclude from your society the men who profess another creed and then, erase the article in your declaration of rights [freedom of religion]; or you permit everyone to have his own religious opinion, and do not exclude from public office those who make use of this permission -"
- Count of Clermont–Tonnerre, "Speech on Religious Minorities and Questionable Professions", 23 December 1789.
- Count of Clermont–Tonnerre, "Speech on Religious Minorities and Questionable Professions", 23 December 1789.