At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain…

“Some of the trees hung their branches down almost as far as the surface, as if they were trying to stroke it with long…

— Sophie Cleverly

I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper…

— Annie Dillard

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her…

— Tony Benn

Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe…

— Peter Padfield

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

— Edward Kennedy

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the…

— Ilana Mercer

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour…

— Edward Gibbon

When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by…

— John Rawls

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If…

— Eva Figes

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to…

— Shaka

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs…

— William Shakespeare