ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets. — Friedrich Schiller 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
There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone… — George VI Copy Share Image
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts… — Shaka Copy Share Image
Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee,… — Lord Byron 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
It's like those eerie stories nurses tell, Of how some actor on a stage played Death, With pasteboard crown, sham orb and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Within Germany, unrest fermented after Germany lost World War I, and the German people, including the workers and the military, detested the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
