To such she would have denied all civil rights, and almost all social rights.

For a true spirit of persecution one should always go to a woman; and the milder, the sweeter, the more loving, the more womanly the woman, the stronger will be that spirit within her.

Strong love for the thing loved necessitates strong hatred for the thing hated, and thence comes the spirit of persecution.

They in England who are now keenest against the Jews, who would again take from them rights that they have lately won, are certainly those who think most of the faith of a Christian.

The most deadly enemies of the Roman Catholics are they who love best their religion as Protestants.
When we look to individuals we always find it so, though it hardly suits us to admit as much when we discuss these subjects broadly.