"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully 
 as when they do it from religious conviction." -  Blaise Pascal (1623-62) 

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1856-1941)

"History teaches us that it is always in the sacred name of religion that the most violent passions of humankind have been aroused and the most horrible crimes committed." - Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
7th Prime Minister of Canada (1841-1919)