Pope Innocent II

Famous quotes containing the words pope and/or innocent:

    “I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;
    Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)