King's Role Quotes

A good king is a public servant.

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

The authority of a king is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

The person of the king is sacred and secure from everything. Doing nothing of himself, he shall be answerable for nothing to the nation. He shall not be autocrat but father and chief of the nation, and as such the present law and constitution deems and declares him to be.

Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy.