The Bible or the bayonet

01/11/2013

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"Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet."

-- Robert Winthrop, early Speaker of the U.S. House
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Robert C. Winthrop: 

07/26/2012

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“Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the Word of God, or the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or the bayonet.”

-- Robert C. Winthrop, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1847-49

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