An interesting quote I found.

[NightRocker]

"The Maryland Act of Religous Toleration". by Gerarld W. Johnston (1949) A little back ground on this, this act was the foundation of the first amendment of our Constitution. a quote from this writing, "Again in 1949, as in 1649, the most frightening thing is not the danger of the sword----or, as of today,the peril of the bomb and the shell-----but the rise of strange new ideas that attack the old loyalties and beliefs which have sustained us for generations. We have proved that we can meet any army our foes can send against us; but,when they attack us with ideas, we are less certain of ourselves than when they descend upon us with fire and steel."