Sallow
The Big Bad Wolf.
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Sounds like Jefferson. So now I will look it up.
I was wrong. Madison. The rest of the story;
Amendment I (Religion): James Madison, Detached Memoranda
The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses. A warning on this subject is emphatically given in the example of the various Charitable establishments in G. B. the management of which has been lately scrutinized. The excessive wealth of ecclesiastical Corporations and the misuse of it in many Countries of Europe has long been a topic of complaint. In some of them the Church has amassed half perhaps the property of the nation. When the reformation took place, an event promoted if not caused, by that disordered state of things, how enormous were the treasures of religious societies, and how gross the corruptions engendered by them; so enormous & so gross as to produce in the Cabinets & Councils of the Protestant states a disregard, of all the pleas of the interested party drawn from the sanctions of the law, and the sacredness of property held in religious trust. The history of England during the period of the reformation offers a sufficient illustration for the present purpose.
Yes..yes it is.
Which is really something, ain't it?
The sanctimonious conservatives who revere each and every one of them as saints until they find out what they were really up too.
Starting up the sort of government that allows anyone to reach their potential without an elite aristocracy on their backs blocking their every move while holding the reigns of power.