John Adams Quotes

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.

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

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

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.

God save the king!

No one is king by his own power.

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

If men's minds were as easily controlled as their tongues, every king would sit safely on his throne

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Kings are the peoples Idols, creatures of their own making

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

At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of the people" ... but the problem changes only superficially.

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

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

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

But the king should not be under any man, only under God and the law, for the law makes the king. Let the king therefore attribute to the law what the law attributes to him, namely lordship and power, for there is no king where will rules and not the law.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

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.

Kings are for nations in swaddling clothes.