Kamehameha Quotes


Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.


Context

The irony was that it was by warfare that he conquered most of the Hawaiian Islands and formed them into a kingdom.


Citations

Kamehameha I, ?-1819, First King and Unifying Conqueror of Hawaii, Proclamation

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Kamehameha I, also known as Kamehameha the Great, was the founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii. A statue of him was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C. by the state of Hawaii as one of two statues it is entitled to give.