Samuel Morse Quotes
The serpent has already commenced his coil about our limbs, and the lethargy of its poison is creeping over us.
View the quotation in juxtaposition to the title of the book he wrote under the pseudonym Brutus. He was a paranoid conspiracy theorist and the “serpent” was the Roman Catholic Church which he was virulently against Catholics along with other immigrants.
Samuel Morse, 1791-1872, Inventor of the Telegraph, President, American Protestant Union, Unsuccessful Candidate for the Mayor of New York, Foreign Conspiracies Against the Liberties of the United States
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He ran as the Nativist candidate and opposed all immigrants and Catholics in particular. He had also written venomous attacks against Catholics under the pseudonym “Brutus”. See {629690} and {629691}.
Poland was one of the Nazi occupied nations which cooperated in the mass murder of Jews and facilitated the Holocaust. Even after the war, much of the Polish Catholic clergy maintained virulent anti-Semitic views and in 1946 Polish thugs with the encouragement of some priests engaged in a pogrom in Kielce of returning Polish Jewish refugees. Catholic Primate of Poland, Augustus Hlond, made numerous anti-Semitic statements further exacerbating the problem. Many cast blame on Pope Pius XII who was not very vocal during the Nazi era regarding the ill treatment and murder of Jews, Gypsies, and handicapped, giving a “green light” to the Polish Prelate and those lower anti-Semitic priests. Papal apologists note that Hitler could have turned on the Catholic Church; the Pope had to walk a fine line between condemning evil and risking the welfare of the Church. Nonetheless, many Catholic priests risked and some lost their lives speaking out against the Nazi evil and protecting Nazi targets.
Before the Protestant Reformation of Martin Luther, there had been a schism of the Catholic Church into the Western Roman Empire—the Latins, headquartered in Rome; and the Orthodox Church—the Greeks, headquartered in Constantinople (Byzantium). One of the main issues of the schism was the Papacy itself. As this quotation shows, Luther was by no means the first to attack the Papacy. Saint Mark’s quotation here was more than 50 years before Luther was born.
The Republican Party has become See {635400} for an earlier expression of his frustration that his party was abandoning its roots and its principles developed under its 2 greatest Presidents, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Crist, an excellent governor was driven out of the Republican Party when the Tea Party extremists gained a degree of control within the party driving it far to the right.
- Born: April 27, 1791
- Died: April 2, 1872
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Painter, Inventor
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
