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Kings’ legitimacy was earned through a combination of sword-wielding leadership in war and noble bloodline – as the sons or grandsons of men who had been kings (or at least great lords) three or four generations in the past. In Ireland, that birthright was called rigdomna – eligibility to rule. In the absence of legitimacy, power was seized by main
... See moreMax Adams • The First Kingdom
Recognition of His Ownership. He is “Lord of all” (Acts 10:36).
J. Oswald Sanders • Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books
The first kings of Early Medieval Britain were not off-the-shelf products of a homogeneous history, geography or philosophy; they were experimenting with new forms of power born out of the necessity to rule self-identifying peoples and regions that generated a directly consumable surplus; by the needs of mobile lords and their warbands.
Max Adams • The First Kingdom
The most revered presidents—Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson, both Roosevelts, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, Obama—have each advanced populist imperialism while gradually increasing inclusion of other groups beyond the core of descendants of old settlers into the ruling mythology.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
And with McKinley’s assassination, there was suddenly, in Theodore Roosevelt, a President who reformers felt was one of their own—their moral leader, in fact: the very embodiment of the popular will, of the spirit of reform, of Progressivism, was in the White House.
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
The Queen Is Essential to the Complete Manifestation of the King.
