High Steward of Scotland/high Stewards of Scotland C 1150-present

Famous quotes containing the words high, steward and/or scotland:

    Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.
    Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

    I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
    Bible: New Testament Luke, 16:3.

    The unjust steward in the Parable of the Unjust Steward.

    The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God’s Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God’s throne, but even by God himself they are called gods.
    James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)