John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon quotes

“The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.”
-- John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

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“To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.”
-- John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

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“Christianity is part of the law of England.”
-- John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

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“So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education”

“Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.”

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

“Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.”

“The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.”

“Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?”

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”

“The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.”

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

“I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.”