Ashes Quote by Charles A. Beard

“We are all in favour of monarchy. It is just that we cannot renounce our mission and the struggle we are conducting against an…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.”

— Ken Follett

“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to…

— Thomas Paine

“Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom … These are the beginnings of sorrows.”

— Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

“Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who…

— Lao Tzu

“[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.”

— Plutarch

“A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights…

— Patrick Henry

“He accepted the social and political conditions as they were, made no endeavor to reform them, and confined himself exclusively to setting the value…

— Herman Bavinck

“He did not know how the world is simplified for kings. To them, all men are subjects.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If a king should fall under such contempt or envy that he could not keep his subjects in their duty but by oppression and…

— Thomas More

“No kings died tonight. No great rulers or masters of the world. Just people. The people Ash had passes every day of his life…

— Sarwat Chadda