Successor State

Famous quotes containing the words successor and/or state:

“The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God’s Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God’s throne, but even by God himself they are called gods.”
—James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)