John Selden Quotes

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

A people may let a king fall and still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

No one is king by his own power.

As sons obey their father and wives obey their husbands, so should citizens obey their rulers.

I know the title of a King is a glorious title, but assure yourself that the shining glory of princely authority hath not so dazzled the eyes of our understanding, but that we well know and remember that we also are to yield an account of our actions before the Great Judge.

There is no king where there is no law.

Kings are for nations in swaddling clothes.

As an absolute Queen I cannot submit to orders, nor can I submit to the laws of the land without injury to myself, the King my son, and all other sovereign princes.

In Spain the king rules, but in the Sierra I do.

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

It is better to be subject to the Laws under one Master, than to be subservient to many.

God save the king!

All empire is no more than power in trust.

I have no right to be a king, but I have the right to create a king.

Queen of the Great Democracy

One who takes on the humiliation of the State Is called a Ruler: worthy of offering sacrifices to the gods of earth millet; One who takes on himself the calamity of the State Is called a King: worthy of dominion over the entire Empire.

Our White Czar is a king above kings, And he holdeth fast to the Christian faith, To the Christian faith, to the faith of prayer: He standeth forth for the faith of Christ, And for the house of the Holy Virgin. All the hordes have bowed down to him, All the tribes have submitted to him, Because the White Czar is king over kings.

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number

The man is king. The man is supreme.

At the end of the day, I'm the king. I'm in my throne, you know? If you want to come see me, come see me.

I'm the Princess of The Authority.

When you're the king of someplace, you don't voluntarily leave.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.