"Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction." -- John Quincy Adams (b. 1767-07-11, d. 1848-02-23; President of the United States of America 1825-03-04 to 1829-03-03), 1802, Oration at Plymouth [via Wikiquote]