Accidents Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

— Joseph Addison

A king, who adheres to the path of righteousness and truth, naturally becomes famous and immortal.People have high regards for a ruler who is…

— Sam Veda

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Once I had thought chiefly of the man of letters, the traveler, the poet, the lover; none of that had faded, to be sure,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Kings are the slaves of history.

— Leo Tolstoy

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or…

— Alexander Pope

The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the…

— William Godwin

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor…

— Seneca the Younger

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people…

— Thomas Jefferson

“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is…

— David McCullough

“A king is a king, but a bard is the heart and soul of the people; he is their life in song, and the…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself,…

— Leo Tolstoy