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
I hope you are looking forward to the tsunami of industrial effluent which is coming your way in the first quarter of… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for… — Elizabeth I 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
In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I… — Daniel Radcliffe 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
Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine 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
We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale… — Edmund Morgan 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
Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 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
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
Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New… — Craig Ferguson 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
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through… — Frederick Douglass 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
The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The charges come less than a week after Cristina’s brother ascended to the throne as King Felipe VI, succeeding his father, King… — Anonymous 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
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