Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain… — Robert Lacey Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
“...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.” — Xenophon Copy Share Image
Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no… — King James I Copy Share Image
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“[M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum , supporting a mixed… — Patrick Collinson Copy Share Image
From creating a new sovereign to affairs of the heart, majestic moments to everyday life, when monarchy wants to send a message… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most people think that there is a monarchy, where God is the king and we are the subjects, and the subjects are… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems -… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Of all the memorable phrases that have been minted and mobilised to describe modern British royalty, 'constitutional monarchy' is virtually the only… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
