Absolute monarchy Quote by Ambrose Bierce

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account.…

— Herodotus

“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

“When you set aside mere names & come down to realities, you find that we are ruled by a King just as other absolute…

— Arthur L. Scott

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a…

— Fisher Ames

“frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism…

— Isaac Asimov

“Up to the abdication of the last Tsar one of the principal articles in the Fundamental Laws stated, simply, ‘His Majesty is an absolute…

— Victor Sebestyen

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

— Anne Boleyn

Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of…

— Dante Alighieri

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's…

— Claire Foy