Karol I. citáty

Karol I. bol kráľ Anglicka, Škótska a Írska od 27. marca 1625.

✵ 19. november 1600 – 30. január 1649   •   Ďalšie mená Re Carlo I d'Inghilterra
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Karol I.: Citáty v angličtine

“Princes are not bound to give an account of their Actions but to God alone.”

Declaration on the dissolution of Parliament (10 March 1628)

“I cannot flatter myself with the expectation of good success more than this, to end my days with honour and a good conscience.”

Remark to Prince Rupert of the Rhine in 1646, just before surrendering to Parliament and its New Model Army. As quoted in Early Modern England: A Narrative History (2009) by Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, p. 258
Kontext: I confess that, speaking as a mere soldier or statesman, there is no probability of my ruin; yet, as a Christian, I must tell you that God will not suffer rebels and traitors to prosper, nor this cause be overthrown, and whatever personal punishment it shall please hi to inflict on me, must not make me repine, much less give over this quarrel... Indeed, I cannot flatter myself with the expectation of good success more than this, to end my days with honour and a good conscience.

“I am no less confident, that no learned lawyer will affirm that an impeachment can lie against the King, they all going in his name: and one of their maxims is, that the King can do no wrong.”

Reasons for declining the jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice http://www.constitution.org/eng/conpur083.htm (21 January 1649)

“I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.”

Last words, said on the scaffold before his execution. ( 30 January, 1649 http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/charles1.html).