AMFAS ORDER
CROMWELL: Consider, now, the circumstances of the prisoner's silence. The oath was put to good and faithful subjects up and down the country and they had declared His Grace's title to be just and good. And when it came to the prisoner he refused...He calls this silence...But how can that be? Because this silence betokened—nay, this silence was not silence at all but a most eloquent denial.
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RICH: But every man has his price!...In money too...Or pleasure. Titles, women, bricksand-mortar, there's always something."
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MORE: Now that the Court has determined to condemn me, God knoweth how, I will discharge my mind...The indictment is grounded in an Act of Parliament which id directly repugnant to the Law of God. The King in Parliament cannot bestow the Supremacy of the Church because it is a Spiritual Supremacy!
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COMMON MAN: It isn't difficult to keep alive, friends—just don't make trouble—or if you must make trouble, make the sort of trouble that is expected. Well, I don't need to tell you that...If we should bump into one another, recognize me.
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STEWARD: Thomas More would give anything to anyone. Some say that's good and some say that's bad, but I say he can't help it—and that's bad...because some day someone's going to ask him for something that he wants to keep; and he'll be out of practice. There must be something that he wants to keep. That's only common sense.
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HENRY: No opposition, I say! No opposition! Your conscience is your own affair; but you are my Chancellor!...Lie low if you will, but I'll brook no opposition—no noise! No words, no signs, no letters, no pamphlets—Mind that, Thomas—no writings against me!
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CROMWELL: This goblet he gave you, how much was worth? Come along, Rich, he gave you a silver goblet. How much did you get for it?
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NORFOLK: The King accepts your resignation very sadly; he is mindful of your goodness and past loyalty, and in any matter concerning your honor and welfare he will be you good lord.
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MORE: A gesture? It wasn't possible to continue, Will, I was not able to continue. I would have if I could! I make no gesture! My God, I hope it's understood I make no gesture!...I'm no street acrobat to make gestures! I'm practical!
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MORE: If the King takes this matter any further, with me or with the Church, it will be very bad, if I even appear to have been in the pay of the Church.
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MORE: But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity fortitude justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all...why then perhaps we must stand fast a little—even at the risk of being heroes.
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