I beg of you, brothers, to look upon me as both brother and servant. 'Majesty' is reserved to God alone and 'the throne' is the throne of the Heavens and Earth.
Speech, after he took power, in 1964
As reported in: The Consolidation of the Ruling Class and the New Elites in Saudi Arabia, Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 23, No. 2 (Apr., 1987), pp. 150-171
