8 November 2016
That Election: C S Lewis comments
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons that under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some time be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own consciences."
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YOW!
Does George Orwell count as Anglican patrimony? Sorry, not up on my Anglicans, except Fr Hunwicke, of course :-)
"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
"The Lord has done great things for us."
The pundits on TV and in the newspapers underestimated how disgusted people were getting.
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