Theodore Parker Quotes
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
Parker, Theodore. Historic Americans. Horace B. Fuller, 1870, p. 146.
Tonga was one of the few nations controlled by a king.
Quoted in somewhat different form by Richard Nixon
After the King’s appointment in 1921 she “advised” him on establishing this regime and operating the government. At a time that women could not even vote in England, Bell was a kingmaker and major power in an area of the world that was much more sexist than England at the time.
The offer of Darius was to pay him ten thousand talents, to cede to him all the countries west of the Euphrates, and to give him his daughter in marriage. Parmenio had urged him to take the offer. Alexander then went on and defeat Darius and the Persions who far outnumbered his forces. Asia then had one king who was more popular than Darius had been.
Windsor was the Kings palace and the King felt that was all he really controlled.
Theodore Parker was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.
