John Defoe

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“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

“And of all plagues with which mankind are curst,
Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.”
—Daniel Defoe (1659–1731)