"Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies."
— God

January 1, 1970

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William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 2, lines 455–57. Cardinal Wolsey is speaking to his servant, Cromwell. During the Watergate hearings on June 12, 1973, Senator Sam Ervin quoted these words to Herbert Porter.