Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian
Just For Laughs: On The Edge - 2002
Quoted from Larry King Weekend, Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (2002-05-12) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/lklw.00.html
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian
Just For Laughs: On The Edge - 2002
“God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!”
Henry Carey (1687–1743) English composer and playwright
"God Save the King" (1730).
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]
“I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.”
Thomas More (1478–1535) English Renaissance humanist
Words on the scaffold, attributed in The Essentials of Freedom : The Idea and Practice of Ordered Liberty in the Twentieth Century as explored at Kenyon College (1960) by Paul Gray Hoffman, p. 43
First reported in indirect speech in the Paris Newsletter (1535): « Apres les exhorta, et supplia tres instamment qu'ils priassent Dieu pour le Roy, affin qu'il luy voulsist donner bon conseil, protestant qu'il mouroit son bon serviteur et de Dieu premierement. » ("Afterward he exhorted them, and besought them very earnestly to pray to God for the King, that He should give him good counsel, protesting that he died his good servant, and God's first.")
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
Verse "Intended to allay the Violence of Party-Spirit"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
William the Silent (1533–1584) stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the Dutch Revolt
Statement in Antwerp, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 34
Alexandre Dumas book Twenty Years After
Vingt ans après (Twenty Years After) (1845)
Context: Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.