An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as…

The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to…

— Marquis de Lafayette

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward…

— Sir Francis Bacon

“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is merely democratic…

— Ayn Rand

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Man is born free but is everywhere in chains,” wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract in 1762. A generation of crusading lawyers put…

— Tom Reiss

“With France as she is, poor and unarmed, war means defeat. Defeat means either a military dictator who will salvage what he can and…

— Hilary Mantel

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral…

— Francis Bacon

“All power has its derivation from God; the Russian Czar, however, was granted a special significance distinguishing him from the rest of the world's…

— Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov

“The founders of Freemasonry—whoever they were—were certainly aware of the history of the Templars, and they were clearly inspired by Templar ideals: devotion to…

— Mark E. Kolko-Rivera

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms…

— Edmund Burke

“bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of the eighth-grade…

— Rob Sheffield

“When you set aside mere names & come down to realities, you find that we are ruled by a King just as other absolute…

— Arthur L. Scott

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral…

— Francis Bacon

To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who…

— Edward Gibbon

“Wherever, therefore, any number of men so unite into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of Nature, and…

— John Locke