Michel de Montaigne Quotes

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

War is the trade of Kings.

Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.

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

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

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

Sovereignty and kingship are never decided by academic debate. They are seized by force.

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.

Kings are the publick Pillars of the State Born to sustain and prop the Nation's weight.

I would rather risk my Crown than do what I think personally disgraceful ... it is impossible that the nation shall not stand by me; if they will not, they shall have another King.

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

'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own.

The king has no equal within his realm.

You are for kings the ears with which they hear, the eyes with which they see, the tongues with which they speak, the hands with which they strike.

Most history books are about power.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.