Quotations about Liberty and Power
The Leveller John Lilburne argues from prison that the King and the Magistrate must obey the law like everyone else (1648)
While in prison once again the Leveller John Lilburne (1615-1657) demanded his day in court and fulminated against the arbitrary acts of the magistrates who put him in prison: I know nothing that makes a man a Magistrate over me but law, and while he walkes by the rules of that Law which make him …