While I am sowing in one place, they ravage the field I have just left. I cannot be everywhere. If Christians had the Scriptures in their own tongue, they could themselves withstand these sophists: without the Bible it is impossible to establish the laity in the truth. If God give me life, ere many years the ploughboys shall know more of the Scriptures than you do.
The availability of the Bible, the word of God, was an emancipation to Europe, being emancipated from the chains of political-ecclesiastical slavery individual freedom began to spring up everywhere. It bore great fruit in Britain, but the greatest expression of it was to be in America.
Traced to its roots, it is to the Bible Americans owe their great system of liberty.
Totalitarian Romanists hate Sola Scriptura, like the totalitarian communist left hates the Constitution. The former sees Sola Scriptura the enemy, the latter sees both their enemy.
Yeah, right. Protestantism was institutionalized in plenty of nations with as great a degree of totalitarianism as any Catholic country well before the majority of people could read.
Your impression of history is a muddled hodgepodge build on the false notion that everything good must have necessarily arose from Protestantism. If you want to talk about freedom and liberty, then you can thank Catholics for the fact that you aren't speaking Turkish right now. When the Ottomans were on the march, it was those evil Catholic states that pushed them back, while many Protestant fronts were rendering and receiving aid from the Turk.
"Totalitarian Romanists hate Sola Scriptura"
It's a made-up, false tradition of men not found anywhere in Scripture, so why wouldn't we hate it?