I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him! - Morris West

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle for animals in human masks!

You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.