O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts… — Shaka Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that… — Homer Copy Share Image
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
