Charles X Quotes

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

I would not like a king who could obey.

I beheld absolutism in all its power; and I felt encouraged to enter into a struggle against Augustin I.

I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes

Tyrannicide: Tyranny is a crime.

… we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

Your dependence upon the crown is no advantage, but rather an injury to the people of Britain, as it increases the power and influence of the King.

No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don't want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Do you trust the government? No? In that case, let’s overthrow it tomorrow.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut his head off.

All power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner …. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

Citizens, we have reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, will successively devour all its children, and only produce despotism and the calamities which accompany it.

It is authority that provokes revolution....

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

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

Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object