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.
¶ Address to the jury, trial of C.B. Reynolds for Blasphemy (May 1887)
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