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
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
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
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. — Thomas Paine 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
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
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy.… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse... — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] — Horace Copy Share Image
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
