Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Kings Quotes, Sometimes Quotes

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

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The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

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The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

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T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

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Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

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Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

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Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

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I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

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Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

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If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

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For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

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It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

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Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

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ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

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Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

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Thou art a Castilian King urinal!

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There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

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