"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy."

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Lafayette, himself was a Roman Catholic and a considerably devout catholic in the later stages of his life, There seems to be no evidence that he might conceivably have said something translatable as this, the earliest source yet found for this is an anti-catholic pamphlet The Future Conflict : An Address, (1878), by Order of the American Union, p. 20, without any citation of original sources. It has also been quoted as: "If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall