Oh, happy kings,
Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.
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Perkin Warbeck, Act III, sc. i. (c. 1629-34)John Ford (dramatist)
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When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.Daniel Defoe
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.William Cowper
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke
BALTHAZAR: Subjects may stumble, when kings walk astray.
Thine acts shall be a new Apocrypha.Thomas (writer) Dekker
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor … And since our race admires gallantry, the writer will deal with it where he finds it. He finds it in the struggling poor now.
John Steinbeck
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