Clergymen Quotes

Every man that lowered our flag was a Democrat.... Every preacher that said slavery was a divine institution was a Democrat. Recollect it! Every man that shot a Union soldier was a Democrat. Every wound borne by you Union soldiers is a souvenir of a Democrat.

Wherever a class or profession possesses more than its numerical share of power, it has usually less than its proportion of physical vigor. This is easily shown from the vast body of evidence collected during our Civil War. In the volume containing the medical statistics of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau, we have the tabulated reports of about 600,000 persons subject to draft, and of about 500,000 recruits, substitutes, and drafted men; showing the precise physical condition of more than a million men. It appears that, out of the whole number examined, rather more than 257 in each 1000 were found unfit for military service. It is curious to see how generally the physical power among these men is in inverse ratio to the social and political prominence of the class they represent. Out of 1000 unskilled laborers, for instance, only 348 are physically disqualified; among tanners, only 216; among iron-workers, 189. On the other hand, among lawyers, 544 out of 1000 are disqualified; among journalists, 740; among clergymen, 954.

A civilian ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

Clergymen should not get involved with politics.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

No soldier starts a war—they only give their lives to it. Wars are started by you and me, by bankers and politicians, excitable women, newspaper editors, clergymen who are ex-pacifists, and Congressmen with vertebrae of putty.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Nothing appeared rich but the churches, nobody fat but the clergy.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.