Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 705 |
| AUTHOR: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| QUOTATION: | Had I but serv’d my God with half the zeal I serv’d my king, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | During the Watergate hearings, on June 12, 1973, Senator Sam Ervin quoted these words to Herbert Porter. |
| SUBJECTS: | God |