Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter XXIX
Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909) King of the Belgians
Source: Bulletin Officiel de Congo Belge - Années 1908 et 1909, page 174. https://archive.org/details/bulletin-officiel-de-congo-belge-annees-1908-et-1909/page/n373/mode/2up King Leopold II in a speech on 17 december 1865.
“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy
Source: Fall of Kings
Norodom Ranariddh (1944) Cambodian politician
[Julio A Jeldres, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-monarchy-search-successor, Cambodia's Monarchy: The search for the successor, 2 April 1999, 8 February 2015, Phnom Penh Post]
“Like Enki, king of the abzu, I am successful in finding solutions, and am wise in words.”
In Debate between Bird and Fish, early 2nd millennium BCE. Text online http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr535.htm at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
“I am an organ of the Lord, and sweetly... do I glorify the King, all atremble before Him.”
Gregory of Nazianzus (329–389) Christian saint, bishop, and theologian
“I came like a king, left like a legend.”
Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981) Swedish association football player
Before playing his last game in Parc des Princes, Paris. https://twitter.com/Ibra_official/status/731025180777172992 <br class="br">Attributed
Brigit of Kildare (451–525) Irish abbess and saint
Prayer traditionally attributed to St. Brigit, as quoted in Prayers of the Saints: An Inspired Collection of Holy Wisdom (1996), by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, p. 77
Context: I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us.
I would like an abundance of peace.
I would like full vessels of charity.
I would like rich treasures of mercy.
I would like cheerfulness to preside over all.
I would like Jesus to be present.
I would like the three Marys of illustrious renown to be with us.
I would like the friends of Heaven to be gathered around us from all parts.
I would like myself to be a rent payer to the Lord; that I should suffer distress, that he would bestow a good blessing upon me.
I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings.
I would like to be watching Heaven's family drinking it through all eternity.
Solomon (-990–-931 BC) king of Israel and the son of David
Ecclesiastes 8:1-4 http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/ecclesiastes/8/, NWT
“I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Said to a young Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who had written a piece critical of Plato in response to his earlier conversation with Emerson, as reported by Felix Frankfurter in Harlan Buddington Phillips, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960), p. 59
