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It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew…

— Edward Jenks

“Though they are now largely silent, the voices from the seventeenth century still speak to us from the innumerable texts and images we are…

— Peter H. Wilson

“Thus it is brought prominently before us, that superstition’s chief victims are those persons who greedily covet temporal advantages; they it is, who (especially…

— Christopher Hitchens

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

— William Blackstone

“Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism give place…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Which, in morals, leads away from superstition,    Which, in politics, leads away from government, and    Which, in art, leads away from Tradition.”

— Various

“Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.”

— Ellen G. White

“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it,…

— H.L. Mencken

“I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back, the passage went. He stumbled beneath the weight,…

— Brandon Sanderson

“A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude, that…

— Edward Gibbon

“Indeed, during the ensuring centuries, Englishmen repeatedly protested that a king could “not break or dispense with the positive laws,” and they asked, “What…

— Philip Hamburger

“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men... and…

— John Adams