protest quotes

   Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis. Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love! Let us not give one penny if old men protest and disapprove.

-Catiline full name Lucius Sergius Catilina
Roman conspirator, from an obscure senatorial family. In 63 BC, he  plotted to murder  Cicero  and other  hostile  senators,  and to seize power, but was arrested and executed.

First I protest, beau schiris, by your leif Beis weill adivisit my werk or ye reprief; Consider it warely, read ofter than anis, Weill, at ane blenk, slee poetry nocht ta'en is.

-Douglas, Gavin
c.1513  Eneados, bk.1, prologue.

The one passion of my life has been footballöthe most exhilarating game I know, and the strongest protest against selfishness, without sermonizing, that was ever put before a thoughtful people.

-Goodall,John
Quoted in  Andrew Ward and  Anton Rippon The Derby County Story (1983).

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