Administration Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England…

— Simon Schama

The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just.

— Thomas Paine

“Charles is difficult to pigeonhole politically. Tony Blair wrote that he considered him a “curious mixture of the traditional and the radical (at one…

— Sally Bedell Smith

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

— Anonymous

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

— Alan Hansen

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“In “Stealth,” his unpublished 2003 report on Charles’s political development, Coppin suggests that Charles harbored a hatred of the government so intense it could…

— Jane Mayer

He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He…

— Benjamin Harvey Hill

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

— Patrick Süskind

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince…

— Andrew Morton

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

— Warren G. Harding

Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium…

— Patricia Briggs