Religion
- William Ward (priest) (c. 1560–1641), English Roman Catholic martyr
- William Ward (missionary) (1769–1823), British pioneer, Baptist missionary
- William George Ward (1812–1882), English Roman Catholic theologian and mathematician
- William Hayes Ward (1835–1916), American clergyman, editor, and Orientalist
- William Ward (bishop) (1761–1838), Anglican clergyman and the Bishop of Sodor and Man
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“As soon as a religion comes to dominate, it has as its opponents all those who would have been its earliest disciples.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world. Reason, when obvious, prevents these corruptions: When abstruse, it keeps the principles entirely from the knowledge of the vulgar, who are alone liable to corrupt any principle or opinion.
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—David Hume (1711–1776)