Roger de Rabutin Quotes
As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.
Rabutin, Roger de. "Letter to the Comte de Limoges, 18 Oct. 1677." Correspondance de Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, edited by Ludovic Lalanne, vol. 3, Charpentier, 1858, p. 286.
Later, Voltaire made the phrase famous. Sometimes the origin is attributed to Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, 1611-1675, a French General.
She was running for the United States Senate. God must have chosen her opponent as she lost.
This is a common perception of many Islamic authorities—that the ancient Jews and early Christians would have clearly become Muslims had they but been exposed to the teaching of the Prophet. As egocentric as this sounds, Martin Luther believed that all reasonable Jews would become Christians.
While most American leaders in 1776 advocated separation of church and state, others did not. There probably has been no better statement for religion in government than this one. Essentially, this view has been held by orthodox Christians, Jews, Muslims and has been at the heart of every theocracy such as Iran.
In 1996 the Tennessee Senate passed a resolution to post the Ten Commandments in homes, schools and businesses. Cohen was then a Senator of the Tennessee State Legislature.
A conservative Calvinist weekly periodical. There has always been a religious right in America.
The Pope was justifying his earlier excommunication of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV who in turn excommunicated Pope Gregory.
This proposal and others like it over the years have never even gotten out of Committee.
Jefferson wrote his friend that the New England clergy had opposed him because he would block their efforts to merge church and state. Inscribed in the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC. The third sentence is often quoted without the first two.
After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. : Joseph ben Matthias
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.
