Matthew Burke

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    He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 13:31,32.

    Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)