Archduke Otto on the Last Emperor

Q: "What do you consider your father's most important political lesson?"

Von Habsburg: "Surely, the most important lesson is the one I just mentioned: that it is necessary to recognize a limitation to power.

"Neither a monarch, nor a dictator, nor an absolute majority give the right to violate the inalienable rights that man possesses because of his creation in the image of the Creator.

"In this connection, what has been said can be a lesson for those political men who move away from this idea and think they are justified by a majority to permit them to abuse men's rights."