Monarchies Quotes
23 quotes by 17 authors
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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.
— Mark Twain
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To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
— Mark Twain
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In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Collins,…
— Sean Young
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I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search…
— Frederick Douglass
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Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself,…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
— Tony Snow
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;…
— Ishmael Reed
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Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency…
— Al Gore
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If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.
— James Hunter
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us…
— Ernst Junger
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We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter…
— Mark Twain
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
— Mark Twain
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Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all…
— Hugo Chavez
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