Famous quotes containing the words royal, assent and/or act:
“Here was a royal fellowship of death.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
—John Jay Chapman (18621933)
“All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. But strong natures, backwoodsmen, New Hampshire giants, Napoleons, Burkes, Broughams, Websters, Kossuths, are inevitable patriots, until their life ebbs, and their defects and gout, palsy and money, warp them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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