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He holds that in a state of nature there is no right or wrong, for wrong consists in disobeying the law. He holds that the sovereign can do no wrong, and agrees with Hobbes that the Church should be entirely subordinate to the State. He is opposed to all rebellion, even against a bad government, and instances the troubles in England as a proof of t
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the condemned and the court change places, the victim becomes the judge.
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Yet he was not the only person who had contributed to it, and he seemed unwilling to admit that fact. “I wrote the report, no question about it,” he insisted in later years. “I wrote or rewrote everything in it.”
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
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Twenty years before, Cohen told the author, he had considered young Representative Johnson “promising material.” Subsequently, he said, he had been somewhat put off by the “intensity” of Johnson’s ambition. But now, in 1957, talking to Johnson over lunch, he felt that the promise had been fulfilled: “He was a man with a mission”—to pass a civil rig
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
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