Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.” — Xenophon Copy Share Image
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that? — William Klein Copy Share Image
I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist. — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
In the early 20th century the monarchy was held up as the archetypical virtuous British family. In the late 20th century it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support.… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Some countries have a parliamentary republic, some are presidential republics and some are still monarchies, but no one sees them as not… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ...… — Sally Bedell Smith Copy Share Image
“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
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