“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.”
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
