When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.