Letter of Aristeas Quotes

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

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.

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.

When despotism has established itself for ages in a country, as in France, it is not in the person of the king only that it resides. It has the appearance of being so in show, and in nominal authority; but it is not so in practice and in fact. It has its standard everywhere. Every office and department has its despotism, founded upon custom and usage.

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

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.

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

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

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

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

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

A political society cannot endure without a supreme will somewhere.

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

Because I am the supreme authority.

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

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.

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

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.

A king, from being a father to his people, degenerates into a tyrant, and forfeits all right to obedience.

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

I almost think were I to win some small success now, I could become dictator.

A king without power is an absurdity.

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.