Quotes about George III of the United Kingdom

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Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.

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

Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin
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
William O. Douglas
Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
On being told that George III had given the Crown lands to Parliament in 1761 in return for a fixed allowance:
Silly ass. The land would be much more valuable today.

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
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
Bertrand Russell
Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."