Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Preface and Book I) by Richard Hooker
“HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers”
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Preface and Book I), Book I, ch. I (Everyman's Library printing, Internet Archive OCR text)
The opening sentence of Book I, explaining why defenders of established order face a harder task than their critics.
Citation: "HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers" — Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Preface and Book I), Book I, ch. I (Everyman's Library printing, Internet Archive OCR text). (id hooker-laws-of-ecclesiastical-polity-q3)
Portrait: Wenceslas Hollar - Richard Hooker (State 1), Wenceslaus Hollar, Public domain.
