Kings

Famous quotes containing the word kings:

“Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.””
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 10:23,24.

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

“...that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 18:21.