King David

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“The first wrote, Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.”
—Apocrypha. 1 Esdras, 3:10-12.

Referring to “three young men” of the bodyguard of Darius, king of the Persians, competing for his favor.

“When I meet a government which says to me, “Your money or your life,” why should I be in haste to give it my money?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)