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3 Daniel Defoe Quotes on Authority

Daniel Defoe quotes on authority

  1. We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.

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  2. Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

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  3. When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

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