King David

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or david:

    “Our king went forth to Normandy,
    With grace and might of chivalry,
    The God for him wrought marvellously,
    Wherefore England may call and cry
    Deo gratias, Deo gratias Anglia
    Redde pro victoria.”
    —Unknown. The Agincourt Carol (l. 1–6)

    “Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)