quotations about kings
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
WILLIAM COWPER
The Task
A king should prefer his country to his children.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day, but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
JOHN LOCKE
"Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays
If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?
ELIZABETH BEAR
Range of Ghosts