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And while they live, we see their glorious actions Oft wrested to the worst; and all their life Is but a stage of endless toil and strife, Of torments, uproars, mutinies, and factions; They rise with fear, and lie with danger down; Huge are the cares that wait upon the crown. - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXIX, v. 14) Whoever is king, is also the father of his country. - William Congreve He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it. - Pierre Corneille He is ours, T' administer, to guard, t' adorn the state, But not to warp or change it. We are his, To serve him nobly in the common cause, True to the death, but not to be his slaves. - William Cowper His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. - Denis Diderot Empire! thou poor and despicable thing; when such as these make or unmake a king! - John Dryden Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost. - John Dryden Every chair should be a throne and hold a king. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Oh, happy kings, Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts. - John Ford Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. - Charles James Fox A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state. - Frederick, the Great (Frederick II) A king should be a king in all things. - Hadrian (Adrian), Aelius Publius Hadrianus Aelius Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort. - Patrick Henry Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority. - Victor Hugo A good king is a public servant. - Ben Jonson He's a king, A right true king, that dares do aught save wrong; Fears nothing mortal, but to be unjust; Who is not blown up with the flatt'ring puffs Of spongy sycophants; who stands unmov'd Despite the jostling of opinion. - John Marston When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship. - John Milton O, unhappy state of kings! it is well the robe of majesty is gay, or who would put it on? - Hannah More A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn. - Alexander Pope The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends. - William Shakespeare The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it. - Jonathan Swift
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