The Ego And His Own - pg. 239

If the Church had deadly sins, the State has capital
crimes; if the one had heretics, the other has
traitors; the one ecclesiastical penalties, the
other criminal penalties; the one inquisitorial
processes, the other fiscal; in short, there sins,
here crimes, there inquisition and here - inquisition. Will
the sanctity of the State not fall like the Church's? The
awe of its laws, the reverence for its highness, the humility
of its "subjects," will this remain? Will the "saint's" face not
be stripped of its adornment?