Country Quote by Lucy Worsley

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

— Rumi

What good is it to be a king who's feared but not respected?

— Rei Fenusko

Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

— Herman Melville

No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards…

— Otto von Bismarck

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

— Anne Boleyn

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

— William Hazlitt

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always…

— Plato

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to…

— William Archibald Dunning