Quotes by Kings

Hang yourself brave Crillon. We fought at Arques and you were not there.
Henry IV
One more such victory and we are undone.
Pyrrhus
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Louis XIV
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
I am the State.
Louis XIV
Every man must get to heaven his own way.
Frederick the Great
I would have praised you more had you praised me less.
Louis XIV
Every man must get to heaven his own way.
Frederick the Great
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
I would have praised you more had you praised me less.
Louis XIV
There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.
Mongkut
It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.
Frederick the Great
Every man is a hypocrite
Frederick IV
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
Solomon
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Solomon
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
Charles
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Stanislaus I
I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
Henry IV
I love an opposition that has convictions.
Frederick the Great
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?
Charles
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Charles
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of No
Frederick the Great
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Alexander the Great
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.
Alexander the Great
There are no more worlds to conquer!
Alexander the Great
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!
Alexander the Great
Who does not tremble when he considers how to deal with his wife For not only is he bound to love her but so to live with her that he may return her to God pure and without stain when God who gave shall demand His own again.
Henry VIII of England
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
Alfonso X of Castile
, “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.
Alexander the Great
The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a man like this does not fight this unhappy provision of his soul during his youth, under no circumstances could he a void becoming furious - and foolish. There are those who would leave it up to God, but to ensure justice on the earth, and not fob it off to the Divinity, it is mandatory that people know both virtue and its benefits, since the virtues lead to unity among them, not the war of all against all. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to conserve them, and show that crime can only return misfortunes and destruction, including of the criminal himself. Who is the last victim of his crimes.
Frederick the Great
Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator.
Alexander the Great
Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same vi
Alexander the Great
Never make a decision while in the state of anger.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Space is limitless, and so is our appetite to master it.
Sigismund
The most important things to be acquired for freedom and democracy, are identity and dignity.
King Michael of Romania
Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.
Philippos
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…
Alexander the Great
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians… and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.
Alexander the Great
We can not have a future without respecting our past.
King Michael of Romania
Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.
King Michael of Romania
We have a chance in the future only if we take our own responsibility. Not anyone else come to give us good.
King Michael of Romania
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
King Abdullah II
The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes
Abdullah II of Jordan
Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.
Frederick the Great
If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new [[Prometheus]] bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
Frederick the Great
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Alexander the Great
Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?
Pepin the Short
Let peace, concord and unanimity reign among all Christian people...for without peace we cannot please God.
Charlemagne
If the least thing goes wrong with a saddle, or clothes, or a boot, you cannot find a soul to make repairs, and the other day a cobbler answered us, 'Yes, that's right, I'm a shoemaker, and sometimes I work, but I'm not in the mood right now.
Louis-Philippe
Nothing of importance happened today.
King George III
Nothing of importance happened today.
King George III
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.
Ælfrēd of Wessex
A prince ... is only the first servant of the state, who is obliged to act with probity and prudence. ... As the sovereign is properly the head of a family of citizens, the father of his people, he ought on all occasions to be the last refuge of the unfortunate.
Frederick the Great
It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?
Frederick the Great
Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score
Frederick the Great
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Pyrrhus
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
Alexander the Great