Second Defense of the People of England Quotes

“Woe to those that mock or hurt us, protected as we are, and almost consecrated from human injuries, by the ordinances and favour of the Deity; and involved in darkness, not so much from the imperfection of our optic powers, as from the shadow of the creator's wings - a darkness, which he frequently irradiates with an inner and far superior light!”
― John Milton, Second Defense of the People of England

“But with Saumaise, I conceive, my warfare is concluded, since he is now dead - how dead, I will not say: for I will not make his loss of life matter of reproach to him, as he did my loss of sight to me.”
― John Milton, Second Defense of the People of England

“Wretched therefore as you may think it, I feel it no source of anguish to be associated with the blind, the afflicted, the infirm, and the mourners; since I may this hope that I am more immediately under the favour and protection of my dread Father”
― John Milton, Second Defense of the People of England