Quotes about Imperial Dignity

Elizabeth Arden

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

Frederick the Great

Those who are considered clerics, grown fat on the alms of princes, now oppress princes' sons...You and all kings of particular regions have everything to fear from the effrontery of such a prince of priests when he sets out to depose us who have been divinely honored by the imperial diadem and solemnly elected by the princes with the approval of the whole church at a time when faith and religion were flourishing....

The church was in constant roil with the Bishops, the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor each striving for superiority over the other two, almost like branches of government fighting for power. This was the bishops attempt to “impeach” the Holy Roman Emperor. (See {610981} ). The Emperor then wrote to all the kings of Christian Europe pointing out that if the Bishops could unseat the Holy Roman Empire by excommunicating any loyal subjects, then they could do so against any king.

Ito Hirobumi

He [the Japanese Emperor] shall not be made a topic of derogatory treatment nor one of discussion.

To this day, Japanese are generally very circumspect about criticizing the emperor and he is rarely the subject of public discussion.

Titus Flavius Vespasian

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness").
[Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]

Oliver Goldsmith

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Tertullian

Never will I call the emperor God … Let him think it enough to bear the name of emperor. That, too, is a great name of God's giving. To call him God, is to rob him of his title. If he is not a man, emperor he cannot be.

Jean Domat

Among the rights that the laws give the sovereign should be included [the right] to display all the signs of grandeur and majesty necessary to make manifest the authority and dignity of such wide-ranging and lofty power, and to impress veneration for it upon the minds of all subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

Imperial Dignity Quotes