“If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.”
“I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.”
“...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.”
“You can burn down my churches. But I shall be free.”
“Mrs Kerslake:" but if there is no chance of being offered a place at Oxford, surely-?"Simon Kerslake: "Thats not what i said Mother, I shall be an undergraduate at Oxford by the first day of term”
“But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.”