The absolute ruler

The Return of the King by Jørn K. Baltzersen
- Highlight Loc. 62-64  | Added on Friday, November 11, 2011, 01:33 AM

In this respect the accident of birth is perhaps not such a bad idea as political correctness would have us believe. Rivarol once said "The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes Titus or Marcus Aurelius; the people is often Nero, and never Marcus Aurelius." (Liberty or Equality, E.M.R. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn).