Greater Quote by Walter Bagehot

One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in the air…

— Nigel Hawthorne

George III's ability to step in and out of his role fed stories of commoners chancing upon a sturdy gentleman by the wayside who…

— Amanda Foreman

George the first was an honest, dull, German gentleman, as unfit as unwilling to act the part of a king, which is to shine…

— Anonymous

“It is calculated that George III had an astonishing fifty-six grandchildren. He did not have one legitimate heir. The vision of Charlotte had sustained…

— Kate Williams

The historian Linda Colley has analysed how and why George III transformed himself from being a figure of 'perfect hatred' to the father of…

— Amanda Foreman

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have…

— A. J. P. Taylor

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per…

— Joseph Sobran

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

— Ralph Nader

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, President George Washington was second to none in humble and…

— Henry Lee III

“It was the first time that ever George had sat down on equal terms at any white man's table; and he sat down, at…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which…

— Charles Francis Adams, Sr

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where,…

— Ringo Starr