Chuck Berry Quotes

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

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

In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.

It's great to be queen!

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

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.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

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

The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.

In Gravity clad, He has nought in his Head, But Visions of Nobles & Kings With Commons below, Who respectfully bow, And worship the dignified Things

I would rather hew wood than be a king under the conditions of the King of England.

A kingdom knows no kindred.

Counsel passes all things to him which thinketh to be a king.

From this window we see the palace where the King is misled by perfidious counsels. Terror and fear have often issued from yon palace: let them return to-day in the name of the law, and let all those who inhabit that palace know that the King is alone inviolable, that the law will strike down the guilty without respect of persons, and that there is not a guilty head which can escape its sword.

Every true thinker for himself is so far like a monarch; he is absolute, and recognizes nobody above him. His judgments, like the decrees of a monarch, spring from his own sovereign power and proceed directly from himself. He takes as little notice of authority as a monarch does of a command; nothing is valid unless he has himself authorized it. On the other hand, those of vulgar minds, who are swayed by all kinds of current opinions, authorities, and prejudices, are like the people which in silence obey the law and commands.

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

Commerce and politics do not go with royalty, full stop.

Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.

They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.

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.

King chiller. That was me.