Charles I Quotes
Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
Charles I, 1600-1649, King of Great Britain & Ireland, Letter to Lord Wentworth, September 3, 1636
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Announcing that U. S. naval forces would attack German war vessels that entered "American protected waters" despite our not being at war:
In the 2012 Presidential campaign, Mitt Romney castigated President Obama for cutting $730 billion from the very popular Medicare program in his budget. The cut did not reduce any benefits to Medicare recipients as the money was saved by ending a subsidy that had been paid to private insurance. However, in Romney’s proposed and published budget, he would cut Medicare by the same $730 but the cuts would come from services as the insurance companies would still get their subsidies.
Charles I was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603 (as James I), he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1612 on the death of his elder brother Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations. Two years later, he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France.
