I'll tell you what a KING is.

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"I will tell His Majesty what a King is. A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men's loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; He earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pain he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does not require a service of those he leads but provides it to them. He serves them. Not they him. That is a King, Your Majesty. A king does not expend his substance to enslave men, but by his conduct and examply makes them free." -Spoken by Xeones, from Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire". ------------------------------------------------------ Well, i just finished reading the book and it really moved me. Gates of Fire, by the way, is a novel of the accounts that commenced in Thermopylae (a rocky mountain pass in Northern Greece where 300 Spartan soldiers battled with millions of the mighty Persian army to hold the pass against these invaders.) If you have seen the movie "300", or have read Frank Miller's book about it, then you probably have a clue as to what i am talking about. I am sharing this because I learned a lot from it. If you're just going to look through the words of Xeones (the Spartan Squire who have told the Persian God-King, Xerxes what a true king is), and relate it to our Politics today, i must say that our leaders should also possess what the Squire described about being a true leader.