The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The more unpopular politicians are, the better people think it is to have a monarchy. — Sarah Bradford Copy Share Image
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.” — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly… — Mark Helprin 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
When Queen Victoria became Britain's longest ruling monarch in September 1896, ousting George III, church bells rang throughout the country, and beacons… — Ingrid Seward 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann 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 advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Most people are not aware that there is a German royal family. In fact as a young man I dated a young… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image