Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it,… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
The smile that illumines the features of beauty, When kindled by virtue, alluring appears; But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow,… — Henry George Bohn Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
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
Self-appointed monarchs are doomed to perdition, for they were not given their peoples blessing; their castles are built on a sandy ground. — Mehdi Guichi Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre… — Pierre Corneille 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
The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones.… — Dwight L. Moody 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
And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“You must never forget that dealing with a monarch is not like dealing with an ordinary man,” Ibn Sina said. “A king… — Noah Gordon 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
The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply… — John Rawls 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
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
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