Winston Churchill Quotes, Kings Quotes, Men Quotes

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

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I am a man more sinned against than sinning

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The king reigns but does not govern.

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Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

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I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.

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The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them.

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While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

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It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

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I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.

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Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.

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