Letter of Aristeas Quotes

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.

King chiller. That was me.

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

For the King, for the people, for the law.

I'm the king of L.A.

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.

Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

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.

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

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

I love the English …. I am the child of Queen Victoria. But I am also King in my own country and must be treated as such. Somsteu must speak gently to me. I shall not bear his dictation … I shall perish first.

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.

Counsel passes all things to him which thinketh to be a king.

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.

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.

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.

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

I have often heard Your Majesty say so.

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 primary duty of Englishmen abroad and in the colonies is to attend at all times, the Service and Defense of their King and Native Country

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

It is certain that, so soon as the people submit to a king, really such, they have no longer the supreme power.

To the law we bow with reverence. It is the one king that commands our allegiance.