Quotes About George Iii

#1. The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

Stanley Baldwin

#2. We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

William O. Douglas

#3. It is calculated that George III had an astonishing fifty-six grandchildren. He did not have one legitimate heir. The vision of Charlotte had sustained the people through the direst years of the regency. Without her, all hope seemed gone.

From "Becoming Queen Victoria

Kate Williams

#4. There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

Geoffrey Rush

#5. George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Henrik Bering

#6. Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

Kate Williams

#7. Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Walter Bagehot

#8. The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

Rand Paul

#9. I am the King. I tell. I am not told. I am the verb, sir. I am not the object. (King George III)

Alan Bennett

#10. I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

Paul Keating

#11. Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Ralph Nader

#12. The American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.

Lewis Goldberg

#13. When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Bertrand Russell

#14. When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.

Joseph J. Ellis

#15. My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

George Foreman

#16. The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.

George Roche III

#17. A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

George III

#18. Nothing important happened today.

George III

#19. Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.

Richard Killeen

#20. Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

George III

#21. Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you - what - was there not sad stuff?

George III

#22. Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

George III

#23. The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph ... we must not retreat.

George III

#24. He referred to Pope Paul III as "His Hellishness." Were not the pope and his associates at least members of the church? Yes, as much as spit, snot, pus, feces, urine, stench, scab, smallpox, ulcers, and syphilis are members of the body. Luther was never one to mince words.

Timothy George

#25. Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

George III

#26. If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

George III

#27. We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

George W. Bush

#28. I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

George III

#29. It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians ... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

George III

#30. Nothing worth noting.

George III

#31. You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

Ben Affleck

#32. We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

George III

#33. Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

George III

#34. Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

George III

#35. Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

George III

#36. My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

George Smoot

#37. Nothing of importance happened today.

King George III