Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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