Inheritance of Power Quotes

Those who had staked most of their personal hopes on RFK are extremely frustrated - & the prospect of anyone ‘in the family’ who didn’t impale him – or herself – on a picket fence without regard to the consequences – suddenly being in a position to pick up all the marbles – that prospect is galling! The same palace guard (now with palace)(or a pretender) find it hard to accept the prospect of a prodigal in-law (let alone son) sitting down their feast.

And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

If, for example, one day Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo becomes the Indonesian Head of State, and dies, won't his child be [his replacement]? Then because of that I do not adhere to the principle of monarchism.

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Ours is not the only party which has more representation of family members.

For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

Nepotism is despised in England, which is a very good thing. I think something to do with the class system. People really look down on nepotism. So yeah, it never really works in your favor - even in this industry.

I believe that it is indeed easier for a woman who follows a male monarch, as it was in my case. There was no role model I had to measure up to. It was clear from the beginning that many things would be different, and that helped. And I hope that the same thing will help my son, Crown Prince Frederik, when he becomes king one day.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

For all of our history, it has been an article of faith that we in America bestow unto our children and grandchildren a nation that is stronger than the one we were given.