John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
XXVI Sermons, No. 26, Death's Duel, last sermon, February 15, 1631
Sermons (1844) Cambridge University Press
Context: The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them…
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
XXVI Sermons, No. 26, Death's Duel, last sermon, February 15, 1631
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“Jesus Christ was the greatest republican.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1857), Of Empire
Jo Grimond (1913–1993) British soldier, politician and academic
The Liberal Future (London: Faber and Faber, 1959), p. 12.
“The universe has no prince or king
That it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.”
Et ne savez-vous plus qu'il n'est princes ni rois
Qu'elle daigne égaler à ses moindres bourgeois?
Nicomède, act I, scene ii.
Nicomède (1651)
David Harvey (1935) British anthropologist
Introduction to the 2006 Verso Edition, p. xi
The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition)
“The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.”
James E. Talmage (1862–1933) American Mormon leader
Source: Jesus the Christ
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Page 147
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)
“Christ has recognised and declared woman's equality with man”
Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933) Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spiritualist
On Women (1890)