A Child's History of England Quotes

“King Richard, who was a strong, restless, burly man, with one idea always in his head, and that the very troublesome idea of breaking the heads of other men, was mightily impatient to go on a Crusade to the Holy Land, with a great army.”
― Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England

“But what he had got by the strong hand, he could only keep by the strong hand, and in so doing he made England a great grave.”
― Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England

“But what is got by force must be maintained by force.”
― Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England