Robert Herrick Quotes

If the leadership asks me to die a martyr, I am ready ... and if they ask me to resign, I am also ready

Let me live and I will do all you wish.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

I am a believer and a conformist.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.

There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

Slaves, obey your masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ.

If you see from your rulers what you hate, hate the action they do but do not rebel against them You should listen and obey them even if the ruler smites your back and takes your wealth.

I have no need of learned men. I want faithful subjects. Be such: that is your duty.

I can say with truth mine is a situation of dignified slavery.