Philip V of Spain Quotes

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

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

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

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

Kings have long arms.

Smash the lot of them …. Show them the fist. Prove yourself a sovereign. You are the autocrat and they should not dare to forget it.

No one is king by his own power.

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

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.

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

For the first time in my life, I have to grab the monks by the throat. Me! The most religious man in the Kingdom! Because I've had enough- more than enough! My subjects and the elite among my subjects must obey!

It's a primitive thing, kings and queens.

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

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

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

You had better have one King than five hundred.

I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

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

All monarchies have a common characteristic...and that is stubbornness.

See, I have taken England with both my hands

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