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“As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me [head of the Reformed church in Scotland], I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.”

— John Knox

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Title: Wikiquote: John Knox
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Knox, John. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John Knox. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Knox

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