Quote by J. H. Elliott

“But His Majesty Carlos II, king of Spain; duke of Milan, Lothier, Brabant, Limburg, and Luxembourg; count of Flanders, Hainaut, and Namur; and count…

— Daniel O'Malley

“The Viceroy possessed no name – nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds of the alphabet after them.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“The kingdom of Aragon possessed an official known as the Justicia, for whom no exact equivalent is to be found in any country of…

— J. H. Elliott

“Finally, this principle and its corollary lead to a conclusion, deduced as an imperative: that the objective of the exercise of power is to…

— Michel Foucault

“the differences between the crown of France and its vassals were expressed in a language which was essentially feudal (a new political vocabulary more…

— Christopher Allmand

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like…

— Brunello Cucinelli

“(F)or it was the belief of the duchy that no nation can be governed well unless there is a majority which can impose its…

— Leonard Wibberley

“Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.”

— W.K. Marriott

“in all cities, these two distinct parties are found, and from this it arises that the people do not wish to be ruled nor…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“It had always been thus, one law for the rulers, another for those they ruled. “Can”

— David Penny

“frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism…

— Isaac Asimov

“Kingship was the supreme form of government, and was believed to be in the natural order of things. It did not need physical strength…

— Julius Evola