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“With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.”

Force Ready Kings Absolutes Sufficient

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.”

Given Taken Kings Absolutes Absolute Power

Author:Anne Boleyn

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”

Knows World May Country Government America Law Ought Kings Absolutes Crowns Free Country

Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.”

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.”

Kings Mets Absolutes Oil Boxing Snakes Salesman

Author:Mickey Duff