Who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson. who wrote that ... "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips ... a philosophical anarchist; nor [William] Seward of the Higher Law.... Not Lincoln ... or Wilson ... or Justice Holmes.
Writing about congressional investigations such as those carried out by the House Un-American Activities Committee:
Truth purchaseth hatred.
First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.
Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.
Thomas Wilson was Bishop of Sodor and Man between 1697 and 1755.
