Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
~ Mabel Hale
War is the trade of Kings.
~ John Dryden
Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw every privilege and all jurisdiction from the Churches.
~ Thomas Becket
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
~ Horace
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
~ William Morris
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
~ Julian Assange
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
~ Cardinal Richelieu
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
~ Thomas Carlyle
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
