"... Judge Bork, with the great majority of educated mankind, misquoted Thomas More as having said at the scaffold, "I die the King's good servant but God's first." What he actually said is "I die the King's good servant and God's first." More's final words were ones not of conflict or tragedy, but of hopefulness and harmony between God and man, church and state, the individual and the collective..."
Shouldn't that be 'The King's good servant, but God's first?"
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Nope. The actual quote is "and"; "but" is a misquote.
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"... Judge Bork, with the great majority of educated mankind, misquoted Thomas More as having said at the scaffold, "I die the King's good servant but God's first." What he actually said is "I die the King's good servant and God's first." More's final words were ones not of conflict or tragedy, but of hopefulness and harmony between God and man, church and state, the individual and the collective..."