Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage: 30th Anniversary Edition

“ Thomas More is more important at this moment than at any moment since his death, even perhaps the great moment of his dying; but he is not quite so important as he will be in about a hundred years’ time.”

In 1929, G. K. Chesterton made this claim with acute perception. One of history’ s greatest lawyers and statesmen and most admired figures of all time, Thomas More was voted “ Lawyer of the Millennium” by the Law Society of Great Britain and named “ Patron of Statesmen” by John Paul II.

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