A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise
“I beg of you, brothers, to look upon me as both brother and servant. 'Majesty' is reserved to God alone and 'the throne' is the throne of the Heavens and Earth.”
Speech, after he took power, in 1964. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4283169
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Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.
As quoted in "Bangkok in flames as army routs protesters" in TheSpec (20 May 2010) http://www.thespec.com/article/772242
“Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne”
The World Is Yours
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)
Address to the Legislative Body (December 1813) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_Addresses/Part_V#Address_to_the_Legislative_Body,_December,_1813.; he here echoes the remark attributed to Louis XIV L'état c'est moi ( "The State is I" or more commonly: "I am the State.")
A General History of Music ([1776-89] 1935) vol. 2, page 736
“Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne
Once Heaven gives it to us.”
Tous ces crimes d'État qu'on fait pour la couronne,
Le ciel nous en absout alors qu'il nous la donne.
Livie, act V, scene ii.
Cinna (1641)