The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee.… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“And I decided to play the hero. See how it felt. To try." "And?" she asks. "I didn't like it," he admits.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet… — John Gay Copy Share Image
The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones.… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“You must never forget that dealing with a monarch is not like dealing with an ordinary man,” Ibn Sina said. “A king… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to… — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
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