James Russell Lowell Quotes About Church And State

Quotes about: Church And State

• The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Humanity, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

• Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

  James Russell Lowell

  Order, Police, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

• The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

  James Russell Lowell

  Zion, America, Church

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1222, Delphi Classics

• The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, School, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.242

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