“The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.” LongGovernmentSinSonReadyTheoryGoes OnHolyVictimStealingGhostOppressionOfficialsDeceivingSecretaryMistressHoly GhostNephewExtortion Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION
“Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.” MaySaidEarthTogetherHeavenJudgingPrayingHolyClothesVictimSalvationInjusticeSaintIronyEverlastingHereafterCondemnationMeeknessLordshipMartyred Author:Neal A. Maxwell