When you look at the history of the monarchy, there's one period that stands out where it is held in universally, awe-inspired… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ...… — Abdallah II Copy Share Image
The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy]. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
