A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
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David Frost (January 1980), The Shah Speaks (video)Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Claude McKay
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
They say that [martial law] would have cost my country less than the bloody anarchy which is there now. I can only reply that it is easy to play the prophet a posteriori and that a sovereign may not save his throne by shedding his compatriots' blood. A dictator can, because he acts, because he acts in the name of an ideology which he believes must triumph whatever the price. But a sovereign is not a dictator. There is an alliance between him and his people which he cannot break. A dictator has nothing to hand over. Power lies in him, and in him alone. A sovereign receives a crown and it is his duty to pass it on.
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—
You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine.
The throne that I won by blood and sweat , by Crom, I will not sell
For promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell!Robert E. Howard
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling
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