Astonished Quote by Marquis de Lafayette

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend…

— Rosa Bonheur

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and…

— Robert Dale Owen

I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe,…

— Wilhelm II

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.

— Theodora

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such,…

— Abraham Lincoln

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles…

— Marquis de Lafayette

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

— John Hancock

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a…

— James K. Polk

So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed…

— Charlton Heston

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts…

— Elizabeth I

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their…

— James Gates Percival

“A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it. It is an essential integrant part of any…

— Edmund Burke