How has the church in every age, when in authority, defended itself? Always by a statute against blasphemy, against argument, against free speech. And there never was such a statute that did not stain the book that it was in and that did not certify to the savagery of the men who passed it.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator

Trial of C.B. Reynolds for blasphemy (May 1887)
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