Deputy Supreme King

Famous quotes containing the words deputy, supreme and/or king:

    “The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
    —State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)

    “The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
    —Medieval English proverb.

    Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)