In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ...… — Sally Bedell Smith Copy Share Image
The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I want self-determination. If that means having a constitutional monarchy as the first step, fine. But, in the end, people in Bahrain… — Zainab al-Khawaja Copy Share Image
My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“ Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice. — John Nichol Copy Share Image
In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
