LL Cool J 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.

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.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

It's good to be the king.

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Life at the top may be privileged, but it is not simple.

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.

And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

To the victor belong the responsibilities.

I lack the strength needed to sustain the scepter. I abhorred it, but in the end I agreed to accept it in order to prevent evils to the country which was about to succumb anew, if not to the former slavery, at least to the horrors of anarchy.

That king who pardons the perpetrator of violence quickly perishes and incurs hatred.

No one is king by his own power.

With great power goes great responsibility.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

In a democracy, power implies responsibility.