Lady Godiva

“It is a beautiful myth that, like all great stories, conveys profound truths. Justice is restored through personal sacrifice when men and women offer nothing less than themselves, for in the end, the only thing they truly retain is their very selves.Tai Ji Men’s Shifu and {{w|wikt:弟子|dizi}} have sacrificed everything they possess, even enduring imprisonment and deprivation for crimes they never committed. They have become sacrificial lambs upon the altar of arbitrary power. May they, like a new Lady Godiva, soon witness the day when their own Leofric awakens, repents, and restores justice.”

“Perhaps it is just a matter of time before some new Godiva will coax the current earls of Mercia and bring about the perfection to which Mark Twain alluded...; and usher in a greater era of understanding, compassion, and tolerance, "with liberty and justice for all," to accompany our scientific progress, and this outcome--Godot himself would no doubt deem worth waiting for.”

“Taxes have a long and ugly history.  …  From then to now—whatever the form of government—Kings, Commissars Chancellors: even Presidents and Prime ministers lust for loot.  It's enough to set one pining for the reincarnation of Lady Godiva.”

“A woman portraying the 11th Century Lady Godiva, but wearing a flesh-colored bathing suit, rode a horse to the Capitol on Friday and sang a tax protest to the governor's receptionist.  Liise Root, 22, a "singing telegram" woman hired by the Libertarian Party, dismounted and walked into the Capitol, where she handed a written protest to receptionist Mae Shaw and sang a Beatles song:  "I'm the tax man, yeah, the tax man.  And you're working for no one but me."”