“King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.” WorldDifferentFormLawLanguageGivenKingsDegreesBoundsDuesSupremeKingdomsTitlesEquityArbitraryMagistrates Book:A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot Source: A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot
“Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.” YearsEndsGrowthKnownSupportPositionArmsKingsFameResourcesClaimsDuesGreekEmpiresThronesDiplomacyPhilipProwessMacedoniaCordiality Author:Diodorus Siculus
“Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.” NeedsGivingMadePresidentAbilityHellKingsSkillsLet MeManagementDuesManagement Skills Author:Tip O'Neill
“God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.” GivingSoulBodyCausesPleasureSubjectsJudgingKingsLowsRaisesDuesJudgedCastingSoul And Body Author:King James I
“Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.” LittlesDifferentChristianSpiritHateOrderBeliefLosesKingsErrorsJewDuesFranceAttachmentIntolerancePersecutionSpainAdvancementZealAnimatedExpulsion Author:Baron de Montesquieu