Benjamin Franklin 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.

God save the king!

Wellington is the King of England. O'Connell is King of Ireland, and I am only the Dean of Windsor

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

King chiller. That was me.

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

A people, [has an] inherent right to appoint and constitute a king supreme and all subordinate civil officers and rulers over them, for their civil good, liberty, protection, peace and safety..

A king without power is an absurdity.

I'm going to be the next king of the Earth.

At the end of the day, I'm the king. I'm in my throne, you know? If you want to come see me, come see me.

My husband may be the King of All Media, but I'm the queen of the house.

I ask one more thing from our father above - God save Bolivia.

I'm the king of Dublin.

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

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

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

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.

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.

The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.

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.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

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.