"Manus haec inimica tyrannis Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem."

"I thought fit to leave this testimony to the world, that, as I had from my youth endeavored to uphold the Common righ…"

"If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases."

"We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those …"

"I am persuaded to believe that God had left nations to the liberty of setting up such governments as best pleased the…"

"Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anoint…"

"I was long since told that I must die — or the plot die. And lest the means of destroying the best Protestants in Eng…"

"The Lord sanctify these my sufferings unto me, and though I fall as a sacrifice unto the — Idols, suffer not idolatry…"

"Liars ought to have good memories."

"One characteristic feature of Sidney's book associates him with Machiavelli. That is his celebration of warlike virtu…"