realm quotes

Ein Reich, einVolk, ein Fu«  hrer. One realm, one people, one leader.

-Anonymous
  German Nazi slogan.

Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place of Christendom.

-Elizabeth I
  Speech to a parliamentary delegation, 5 Nov. Quoted in Christopher Haigh Elizabeth I (1988).

I know that Ihavethe bodyof a weak and feeble woman, but I havetheheart and stomach of a kingand a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

-Elizabeth I
   Address at Tilbury on the approach of the Spanish Armada.

Let a king recall that it is better to improve his realm than to increase his territory.

- Desiderius originally  Gerrit Gerritszoon Erasmus
  Querela Pacis.

It is statute and ordained that in na place of the Realme there be used Fute-ball,Golfe, or uther sik unproffitable sportes.

-James IV
  Royal decree.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and, finally, it isthe subversion of good order, of all equityand justice.

-John Knox
  First Blast of the Trumpet against theMonstrous Regiment of Women.

It ismediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-gunsintherealmoffreesong, saying thusfar shall you go and no further.

-James Russell Lowell
  'Elizabethan Dramatists, Omitting Shakespeare:  John Webster'.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. See Hazlitt 388:80.

-1st Baron
  'Hallam's Constitutional History' in the Edinburgh Review, Sep.

Ifdrawing belongstotherealmoftheSpirit and colour to that of the Senses, you must draw first, to cultivate the Spirit and to be able to lead colour through the paths of the Spirit.

- Henri EŁ  mile Beno|"  t Matisse
  Letter to Henry Clifford, quoted in  Jack D Flam Matisse on Art (1973).

   A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept† At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

- Arthur Miller
  The Collected Plays,'Introduction, II'.

England's chief defence depends upon the navy being always ready to defend the realm against invasion.

-Philip II
c.1555  Submission to the Privy Council while King-Consort of England.

Our fathers have, in process of centuries, provided this realm, its colonies and wide dependencies, with a speech as malleable and pliant as Attic, dignified as Latin, masculine, yet free of Teutonic guttural, capable of being precise as French, dulcet as Italian, sonorous as Spanish, and captaining all these excellences to its service.

- SirArthurThomas known as  'Q' Quiller-Couch
  The Oxford Book of EnglishVerse, preface.

In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  In the American Freeman, Jul.