Kings

Famous quotes containing the word kings:

“They know, and will therefore say, that kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“One who puts on armor should not brag like one who takes it off.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 20:11.

“The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
These five kings did a king to death.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)