“And kind as kings upon their coronation day.”
— John Dryden, Fables, The Hind and the Panther (1687), Part I, line 271.
“'Long live the king,' cry the loving and the loyal, beside themselves with joy. 'Long live the king,' responds the republican hypocrite in dire terror. What does it matter? There is only one cry. And the king is crowned.”
— Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France (1796), ch. IX
“The king is a higher man to whom an earthly fate is given. This poetry imposes itself on a person necessarily. It alone satisfies a higher longing in his nature.”
— Novalis, "Faith and Love; or, the King and the Queen" (1798) in Novalis Schriften, Volume 2 (1907), p. 151
“Who is like the wise man? Who knows the solution to a problem? A man’s wisdom lights up his face and softens his stern appearance. I say: “Obey the king’s orders out of regard for the oath to God. Do not rush to depart from his presence. Do not take a stand for anything bad; for he can do whatever he pleases, because the word of the king is absolute; who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?”
— Solomon, Ecclesiastes 8:1-4, NWT
“Let kings be as David was, men after God's own heart, yet they will not want a Shimei to rail on them.”
— Finch, L.C.J., Hampden's Case (1637), 3 How. St. Tr. 1232.
“Compassing the death of the King is a legal conclusion from facts. So it is, almost, as to every other offence.”
— Lord Mansfield, Foxcroft v. Devonshire (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 937.

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