Hugh Latimer Quote

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.


To Nicholas Ridley [1500-1555] as they were being burned alive at Oxford for heresy [October 16,1555]. From J. R. Green, A Short History of the English People (1874), ch. 7


Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.