George Herbert Quotes
Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
Herbert, George. The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633, p. 147.
Critics ask, “If legal authorities are so corrupted by making others suffer, why do they continue to do it, and why so much official corruption? Mises never provided an answer to this dilemma.
Bruce is one of the few American Comedians to so offend the political establishment that he was constantly legally harassed throughout his career. He was actually criminally convicted in New York for obscenity. In 2003 he was posthumously pardoned by the New York Governor, the first posthumous pardon in state history.
George Herbert was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." He was born into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised in England. He received a good education that led to his admission to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1609. He went there with the intention of becoming a priest, but he became the University's Public Orator and attracted the attention of King James I. He served in the Parliament of England in 1624 and briefly in 1625.
