“The king is the umbrella to the people and the people are the pillars of the king.”

Original: (pt) Camões tinha razão. Um fraco rei faz fraca a forte gente.
Source: "A Alma e a Gente - D. Fernando, Fraco Rei, Forte Gente (D. Fernando, Weak King, Strong People)"

Um fraco Rei faz fraca a forte gente.
Stanza 138, line 8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto III

2nd ed. (1913), p. 683 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026609167;view=1up;seq=725 <br class="br">A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great (1913) <br class="br">Context: The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

House of Commons, 13 May 1901, Hansard vol. 93 col. 1572. http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1901/may/13/army-organisation <br class="br">Early career years (1898–1929) <br class="br">Context: In former days, when wars arose from individual causes, from the policy of a Minister or the passion of a King, when they were fought by small regular armies of professional soldiers, and when their course was retarded by the difficulties of communication and supply, and often suspended by the winter season, it was possible to limit the liabilities of the combatants. But now, when mighty populations are impelled on each other, each individual severally embittered and inflamed—when the resources of science and civilisation sweep away everything that might mitigate their fury, a European war can only end in the ruin of the vanquished and the scarcely less fatal commercial dislocation and exhaustion of the conquerors. Democracy is more vindictive than Cabinets. The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

Quoted in page 178 of * Pradhan
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&quot; Epitaph of Antiochos, King of Kommagini http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_115.htm&quot; (1923) &lt;!-- some of the ironies of the poem are lost with only this portion of it … but so it goes...--&gt; <br class="br">Context: People of Kommagini, let the glory of Antiochos,<br>the noble king, be celebrated as it deserves.<br>He was a provident ruler of the country.<br>He was just, wise, courageous.<br>In addition he was that best of all things, Hellenic —<br>mankind has no quality more precious:<br>everything beyond that belongs to the gods.

Quotes from him, Reklámtörvényszék

"Imam's Sahife" vol. 4 p. 244 (1 November 1978).
Foreign policy