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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.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.