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“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

“One of the great problems with Americans is that – being a decent people – they assume that everyone else is equally decent”. –Meir Kahane

“Alas, how can the poor souls live in concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness”. –King Henry VIII

“The image is one thing and the human being is another… it’s very hard to live up to an image”. –Elvis Presley

“Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?” –Nancy Mitford

“We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement… We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home”. –King Faisal I

“No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive”. –Hank Williams

“Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads; not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race”. –Edward Thorndike

“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings; the whole of the Christians — and throw in the Saracens to boot — they would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world”. –Marco Polo

“I can’t bear to see myself, even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can’t stand the sight of myself”. –Nat King Cole

“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s Will, and He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”. –Martin Luther King

“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them”. –King Henry IV