As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Most people think that there is a monarchy, where God is the king and we are the subjects, and the subjects are… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu 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
Of all the memorable phrases that have been minted and mobilised to describe modern British royalty, 'constitutional monarchy' is virtually the only… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past… The Bible's "Israel" is a… — Thomas L. Thompson Copy Share Image
“In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“All power has its derivation from God; the Russian Czar, however, was granted a special significance distinguishing him from the rest of… — Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov Copy Share Image
If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four… — Elsie Wayne Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
If the corrupt Jordanian monarchy were overthrown, it would be the ideal opportunity to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the West Bank… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“An error in the doctrine of God will have inevitable consequences in the sphere of action, of moral behaviour, of the polity… — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part… — Torbjorn Tannsjo 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
“Wherever, therefore, any number of men so unite into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“ Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain 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
Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
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