The Liberals ... were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institute civil marriage and divorce, to recognise the rights of illegitimate children as equal to those of legitimate ones, and to cut up the country into a federal system that would take power away from the supreme authority. The Conservatives, on the other hand, who had received their power directly from God, proposed the establishment of public order and family morality. They were the defenders of the faith of Jesus Christ, of the principle of authority, and were not prepared to permit the country to be broken down into autonomous entities.
G. Garcia Marquez, One hundred years of solitude (1967), 98
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