I did not usurp the crown. I picked it up from the gutter; the people placed it on my head. I was king of the people as the Bourbons are kings of the nobles.

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.