Anna Beer > Quotes

“John Milton almost single-handedly created the identity of the writer as political activist.”
― Anna Beer, Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot

“...And reveals, that in Elizabethan politics, the pen was mightier than the sword.”
― Anna Beer, Sir Walter Ralegh and his Readers in the Seventeenth Century

“Typically, Walter found a good motto for himself: Nec mortem peto, nec finem fugio (I neither seek out death, nor flee from the end).”
― Anna Beer, Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

“His chosen format was the pamphlet: quick to write, cheap to print, cheap to buy, a form constantly in dialogue with itself, as pamphleteer responded to pamphleteer.”
― Anna Beer, Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer And Patriot

“The first casualty of war is truth.”
― Anna Beer, Sir Walter Ralegh and his Readers in the Seventeenth Century