not power, and will in an emergency prove altogether useless unless the power for which they stand be forthcoming. The real power by which the community is governed is made up of all the means which all its members possess of giving pain or pleasure to each other."—Macaulay.
"It is authority against authority all the way, till we come to the divine origin of the rights of man, at the creation. Here our inquiries find a resting-place, and our reason finds a home. If a dispute about the rights of man had arisen at the distance of a hundred years from the creation, it is to this source of authority they must have referred , and it is to the same source of authority that we must now refer."—Paine.
"The learned have weighed it, and found it light; wise men conceive some fear, lest it prove not only not the best kind of government, but the very bane and destruction of all government."—Hooker.
“New Pilates and modern Herods, men devoid of justice, piety, and religion, who, while they see you robbed of your liberty and betrayed to your enemies,make not the slightest murmur of protest or disapproval, but, to hide or excuse their own cowardice, would have the world believe that the wrongs of the Holy See flow from what they call misfortune and the unhappy temper of the times."—Cardinal Gibbons.
"Mulmutius made our laws;
Who was the first of Britain which did put
His brows within a golden crown, and called
Himself a king."—Shakespeare.
"A noble peer of mickle
Trust and power."—Milton.
"The shadow takes the place of the substance till the country is left with only shadows in its hands."—Paine.
"In this period of the world, in this decisive crisis between ancient and modern times, in this great central point of history, stood two powers opposed to each other. On one hand we behold the Roman emperors, the earthly gods, and absolute masters of the world, in all the pomp and splendor of ancient paganism, standing, as it were, on the very summit and verge of the old world, now tottering to its ruin; and on the other hand we trace the obscure rise of an almost imperceptible point of light, from which the whole modern world was to spring, and whose further progress and full development, through all succeeding ages, constitutes the true purport of modern history."—Schlegel.
"The giants,when they found themselves fettered, roared like bulls, and cried upon Setebos to help them."—Travayle.
