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  First Council of Arles, Decree (314 CE)...
• CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
  The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden....
• Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
• NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
• NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION.
• Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition.
• The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• It cannot be said too often - at any rate is it not being said often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic
  but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisition never dreamt of....