Quote by Charles A. Beard Download Open image ““He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.”” — Charles A. Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.” — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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“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 Copy Share Image
“He did not know how the world is simplified for kings. To them, all men are subjects.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money. — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“French-Canadian, the Alaskan, the Latin-American, the German, the Italian, the Anglo-American, and the American Indian, squaw and warrior. In the place of honor in… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.” — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image