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“Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.”

— W.K. Marriott

My dream is to turn Europe into 300 million princes.

— Mikis Theodorakis

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

To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty…

— Robert Graves

“Do you think that I want to live in a communal society with people like that Battaglia acquaintance of yours, sweeping streets and breaking…

— John Kennedy Toole

“They were the supreme representatives of the Catalan nation, acting as spokesmen for it in any conflict with the Crown, and seeing that the…

— J. H. Elliott

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to…

— Thomas More

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

— Karl Marx

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their…

— Ben Jonson

He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that the family…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be…

— Bernard Bailyn