„Poddany i władca to całkowicie różne stworzenia.”
Źródło: Jerzy Besala, Między zbrodnią a postępem http://www.wiz.pl/8,143.html, „Wiedza i Życie” nr 07/2007
Karol I Stuart: 9 cytatów0 Polubień
Karol I Stuart cytaty
„Monarcha nie może być sądzony przez żaden sąd na ziemi.”
Źródło: Alex Axelrod, Charles Phillips, Władcy, tyrani, dyktatorzy. Leksykon, Politeja, Warszawa 2000, s. 310.
Karol I Stuart: Cytaty po angielsku
“Princes are not bound to give an account of their Actions but to God alone.”
Declaration on the dissolution of Parliament (10 March 1628)
Letter to Pope Gregory XV (20 April 1623).
Sir Charles Petrie (ed.), The Letters...of King Charles I (1935), p. 16.
Remark to Prince Rupert of the Rhine in 1646, just before surrendering to Parliament and its New Model Army. As quoted in Early Modern England: A Narrative History (2009) by Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, p. 258
Kontekst: I confess that, speaking as a mere soldier or statesman, there is no probability of my ruin; yet, as a Christian, I must tell you that God will not suffer rebels and traitors to prosper, nor this cause be overthrown, and whatever personal punishment it shall please hi to inflict on me, must not make me repine, much less give over this quarrel... Indeed, I cannot flatter myself with the expectation of good success more than this, to end my days with honour and a good conscience.
On the scaffold before his execution. ( 30 January, 1649 http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/charles1.html).
Reasons for declining the jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice http://www.constitution.org/eng/conpur083.htm (21 January 1649)
Last words, said on the scaffold before his execution. ( 30 January, 1649 http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/charles1.html).
Statement in the House of Commons after failing to arrest five members (4 January 1642), from the journal of Sir Simonds d'Ewes
