I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy.… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the… — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
“As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The United States of America or the Western countries, they don't have a problem with Islamists as long as they are neoliberal… — Tariq Ramadan 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
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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
Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
“Do you think that I want to live in a communal society with people like that Battaglia acquaintance of yours, sweeping streets… — John Kennedy Toole 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
Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Appartenir à une patrie, c'est aussi s'engager pour le siècle où l'on y vit (source: émission sur la Russie sur Arte le… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend to be a bit of a proselytiser for the importance of royal courts, but all politics - in fact every… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of… — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse… — Alexander Fraser Tytler 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
Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
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