John Milton — "God made man to rule, and not to be ruled by others."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are."

"For God, we know, hath bid the man to rule: But in that right, not with a tyrannous hand."

"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for knowledge is as food, and needs no less variety than appetite."

"And from the bliss of Eden brought no more But tears for such as there had lived before."

"Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy!"