Subjects

Famous quotes containing the word subjects:

    While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    I am all the subjects that you have,
    Which first was mine own king.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)