4 Daniel Defoe Quotes on Politics

Daniel Defoe quotes on politics

2. Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

9. The royal refugee our breed restores With foreign courtiers and with foreign whores, And carefully repeopled us again, Throughout his lazy, long, lascivious reign.

13. And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

14. 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.