Famous quotes containing the words king and/or power:
“Not Solomon, for all his wit,
Nor Samson, though he were so strong,
No king nor person ever yet
Could scape, but death laid him along:”
—Robert Southwell (1561?1595)
“Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are not equal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)