Otanes Quote

Fellow partisans, it is plain that one of us must be made king,... but I shall not compete with you; I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled; but if I waive my claim to be king, I make this condition, that neither I nor any of my descendants shall be subject to any one of you.

in Herodotus, Histories, 3.83, Complete Works of Herodotus, p. 216