There is a motto which has been borne by many of my ancestors - a noble motto, "I serve". Those words were an inspiration to many bygone heirs to the Throne when they made their knightly dedication as they came to manhood. I cannot do quite as they did.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

It's inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you, a successor to the kings and queens of history.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.