Absolute monarchy Quote by Ambrose Bierce

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

— Garry Kasparov

“Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of…

— Kenneth O. Gangel

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of…

— Florence King

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

— David Hume

“Wherever, therefore, any number of men so unite into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of Nature, and…

— John Locke

To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who…

— Edward Gibbon

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral…

— Francis Bacon

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms…

— Edmund Burke

“All power has its derivation from God; the Russian Czar, however, was granted a special significance distinguishing him from the rest of the world's…

— Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral…

— Francis Bacon

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to…

— Marquis de Lafayette