Charles I of England famous quotes

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds
-- Charles I of England

#Mind #Democracy #Vote

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
-- Charles I of England

#Apology #Defense #Politics

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
-- Charles I of England

#Kings #People #Liberty

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
-- Charles I of England

#Apology #Negativity #Defense

I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.
-- Charles I of England

#Crowns #World #Remember

Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others.
-- Charles I of England

#Heart #Practice #Trying

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
-- Charles I of England

#Apology #May #Accused

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.

I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly,

It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.