"A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn."

-- Alexander Pope

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“Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.”
“[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.”
“I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.”

Source : Richard Baxter (1846). “Making Light of Christ and Salvation: Too Oft the Issue of Gospel Invitations: A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live: The Last Work of a Believer ... of the Shedding Abroad of God's Love ...”, p.41
“French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.”

Source : "Tunisia's Challenge: A Conversation with Rachid al-Ghannouchi". UMCI News (Potomac Falls, VA), December 14, 2011.
“It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.”
“At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.”
“In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.”
“A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.”

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