“When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.” MenPersonsFightingKingsHighestCourtMajestySingle PersonResidenceRegalKingship Book:The Prose Works of John Milton Source: The Prose Works of John Milton
“It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.” PeopleWatchesEconomyKingsHighestMinistersPrivacyExceptionExpensesAdamPresumptionInvisible HandSpendthriftImpertinence Author:Adam Smith
“All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region, but rather would say, he is the highest possible beauty of the most lucid and perfect color.” PerfectColorKingsHighestClaimsVisibleRegions Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” RealityMotivationalLawPoliticalOrderIndividualCommunityLibertyAcceptingBreakAcceptanceWillingKingsHighestRespectConscienceInjusticeLibertarianActivismAfrican AmericanProtestPenaltiesUnjustDissentDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceImprisonmentPeace And JusticeIndividual RightsPeace JusticeLibertarian PartyEquality And JusticeLiberty And JusticeDignity And RespectGood KingsJustice And InjusticeUnjust LawsJustice EqualityUnjust War Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.” PeopleFeltCrimeReturnKingsTaxesHighestArmyCriminalsGuiltyRoyalAccountingProprietyPrerogativeDisloyalty Author:John Buchanan Robinson