When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, `tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Benjamin FranklinAmerican author, politician, philosopher, scientist 17 January 1706 — 17 April 1790 |
letter to Richard Price, 9 October 1780 |
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