For 40 years, I have not been the ruler - the authority has been with the people. They take nothing from me or add anything to me. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
