Mary, Queen of Scots Quotes

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

The king is from God, the law from the king.

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.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

The authority of a king is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government

In the name of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth of England and her successors forever I take possession of this kingdome whose king and people freely resigne their right and title to the whole land unto Her Majesty.

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.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; so it is presumption and contempt to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that.

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

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

Kings have long arms.

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.

God save the king!

Cambodians dare do nothing of themselves without leave of the king, which is why Christians cannot be made without the king’s approval …. Nothing is done that the king knoweth not.

A king's word must stand.

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

Even an infant king must not be despised from an idea that he is a mere mortal; for he is a great deity in human form.

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.

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth and sit upon God's throne.

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

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

The man is king. The man is supreme.

The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?