Famous quotes containing the words constitution, kingdom, hawaii and/or government:
“Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
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And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little, little grave, an obscure grave.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Soaked by the sparkling waters of America.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2740, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“I incline to think that the people will not now sustain the policy of upholding a State Government against a rival government, by the use of the forces of the United States. If this leads to the overthrow of the de jure government in a State, the de facto government must be recognized.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)