Robert Filmer

"To majesty or sovereignty belongeth an absolute power not subject to any law."

"...the prince is not subject to his law, nor to the laws of his predecessors, but well to his own just and reasonable conventions."

"I come now to examine that argument which is used by Bellarmine, and is the one and only argument I can find produced by my author for the proof of the natural liberty of the people. It is thus framed…"

"The three sons of Noah had the whole world divided amongst them by their Father; for of them was the whole world overspread, according to the benediction given to him and his sons: "Be fruitful and mu…"

"In a well-ordered state, the sovereign power must remain in one only, without communicating any part thereof unto the state . Wise politicians, philosophers, divines and historiographers, have highly …"

"Within the last hundred years many of the Schoolmen and other Divines have published and maintained an opinion that: "Mankind is naturally endowed and born with freedom from all subjection, and at lib…"

"Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings"

"I see not then how the children of Adam, or of any man else, can be free from subjection to their parents. And this subjection of children being the fountain of all regal authority, by the ordination …"