An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. — Ambrose Bierce 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
I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
I want self-determination. If that means having a constitutional monarchy as the first step, fine. But, in the end, people in Bahrain… — Zainab al-Khawaja Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“We are all in favour of monarchy. It is just that we cannot renounce our mission and the struggle we are conducting… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
But for all those who don't want the Queen there are easily as many who don't want a President and even more… — Dalton Camp Copy Share Image
We have a huge institution that celebrates the undistinguished, an institution which is nearly as old as the Papists. It's been going… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people… See… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to… — Michel de Montaigne 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
The Windsor monarchy is held in just awe. The whole process of criticism of the personal behaviour of the monarch is put… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We eliminated the monarchy. We put limits on how long one person could lead our country and on the powers they held… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
“No debe de tener a nadie de confianza el rey Juan Carlos si nadie se atreve a decirle que no se puede… — Chus Fernandez Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and… — Francois Furet Copy Share Image
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a… — John Green 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
There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had… — Max Hastings 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
Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In the early 20th century the monarchy was held up as the archetypical virtuous British family. In the late 20th century it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I have only met Prince Charles once, when he was very charming and easy to chat to. I have always had a… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none… — Elizabeth I 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
It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support.… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
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