Principalities Quotes
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To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head, And he will fill thy wishes to the brim With principalities.
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During the early archaic period at the Macedonian territory, the Dorian tribal groups came across over the Pindos mountain,to the area of today's North-Western Greece and parts of the southern Republic of Macedonia. They established several early principalities partially by chasing away the local Paeonian tribes. Those tribal groups were the ancient Macedonians.
— "Macedonian Heritage" magazine, No 1, july 1996, p.5
Stirring suddenly from long hibernation, I knew myself once more a poet Guarded by timeless principalities Against the worm of death.
— 1945 'Mid- Winter Waking'.
Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.
Martin Luther— Martin Luther, 1524, letter to the German rulers quoted in The History of Compulsory Education in New England, John William Perrin, 1896.
