Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the physical. Courts are the workshops of crimes, the lair of tyrants. The history of kings is the martyrology of nations.

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Herbert A. L. Fisher, The Republican Tradition in Europe (The Harvard University Lowell Lectures, 1910), translates | Kings are in morality what monsters are in the world of nature.

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