William the Silent quotes

“In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.”
-- William the Silent

Source : "William the Silent, William of Nausau, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584". Book by C. V. Wedgwood, p. 78, 1944.

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“We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.”
-- William the Silent

Source : "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 62, 1897.

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“I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.”
-- William the Silent

Source : "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 64, 1897.

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“It is not possible for me to bear alone such labours and the burden of such weighty cares as press on me from hour to hour, without one man at my side to help me. I have not a soul to aid me in all my anxieties and toils.”
-- William the Silent

Source : "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 75, 1897.

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“I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.”
-- William the Silent

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“My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.”
-- William the Silent

Source : "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 176, 1897.

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“Farewell count without a head”
-- William the Silent

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“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”

“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”

“In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.”

“What's my favourite food? One you order out.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

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