
God hath power to create or destroy, make war or unmake at his pleasure, to give life or send death, (…) And the like power have kings: they make and unmake their subjects, they have power of raising and casting down, of life and of death, judges over all their subjects and in all causes and yet accountable to none but God only. They have power to exalt low things and abase high things, and make of their subjects, like men at the chess. (ang.)
Źródło: Speeches to Parliament (1609), cyt. za: Steven Kreis, Lectures on Early Modern European History, The History Guide, 2004 http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/james1609.html