Quotes 21 Jun

Caesar gets his share of submission, but only once God’s universal Law is respected! As every law has to be constitutional, every claim of submission to authority has to be seen in light of our submission to God’s character and Law, to reason, and in consideration of the facts. Otherwise, it is not submission, but an enslavement by the authority, and an abrogation of responsibility by the citizen.- On Law and Authority, Udo W. Middelmann

The readiness of the English to apologise for something they haven't done is remarkable and it is matched by an unwillingness to apologise for what they have done. - Henry Hitchings,  Sorry! The English and their manners, p 7

The  French were  women at the toilet, heroes in the field, contemptible in private life, in public formidable. The English adapted only half of this which threatened to be their ruin. -, John Brown Estimate of the manners and principles of the times, 1757 ,

I have studied the manners of the French nation, and have found them volatile even to a degree of childishness.  To all rules there are doubtless, exceptions, but a Frenchman is in general an ignorant prejudiced fop. - George Edward Ayscough 1779

the only difference between the English and then brother savages in Africa is that among the latter the fair sex meet with some consideration . - Robert Martin Leisure, Les Savauges de l'Europe