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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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7.54 A. D. Godley 1856-1925<br />

Great and good is the typical Don, and <strong>of</strong> evil and wrong the foe,<br />

Good, and great, I’m a Don myself, and therefore I ought to know.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Megalopsychiad’<br />

What is this that roareth thus?<br />

Can it be a Motor Bus?<br />

Yes, the smell and hideous hum<br />

Indicat Motorem Bum!...<br />

How shall wretches live like us<br />

Cincti Bis Motoribus?<br />

Domine, defende nos<br />

Contra hos Motores Bos!<br />

Letter to C. R. L. Fletcher, 10 January 1914, in ‘Reliquiae’ (1926) vol. 1, p. 292<br />

7.55 Sidney Godolphin 1610-43<br />

Or love me less, or love me more<br />

And play not with my liberty;<br />

Either take all, or all restore,<br />

Bind me at least, or set me free.<br />

‘Song’<br />

7.56 William Godwin 1756-1836<br />

Perfectibility is one <strong>of</strong> the most unequivocal characteristics <strong>of</strong> the human species.<br />

‘An Enquiry concerning the Principles <strong>of</strong> Political Justice’ (1793) bk. 1, ch. 2<br />

<strong>The</strong> illustrious bishop <strong>of</strong> Cambrai was <strong>of</strong> more worth than his chambermaid, and there are few<br />

<strong>of</strong> us that would hesitate to pronounce, if his palace were in flames, and the life <strong>of</strong> only one <strong>of</strong><br />

them could be preserved, which <strong>of</strong> the two ought to be preferred.<br />

‘An Enquiry concerning the Principles <strong>of</strong> Political Justice’ (1793) bk. 2, ch. 2<br />

Love <strong>of</strong> our country is another <strong>of</strong> those specious illusions, which have been invented by<br />

impostors in order to render the multitude the blind instruments <strong>of</strong> their crooked designs.<br />

‘An Enquiry concerning the Principles <strong>of</strong> Political Justice’ (1793) bk. 5, ch. 16<br />

It is a most mistaken way <strong>of</strong> teaching men to feel they are brothers, by imbuing their mind with<br />

perpetual hatred.<br />

‘An Enquiry concerning the Principles <strong>of</strong> Political Justice’ (1793) bk. 5, ch. 18 (on the subject <strong>of</strong> war)<br />

What...can be more shameless than for society to make an example <strong>of</strong> those whom she has<br />

goaded to the breach <strong>of</strong> order, instead <strong>of</strong> amending her own institutions which, by straining order<br />

into tyranny, produced the mischief?<br />

‘An Enquiry concerning the Principles <strong>of</strong> Political Justice’ (1793) bk. 7, ch. 3 (on the penal laws)<br />

7.57 Joseph Goebbels 1897-1945

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