After Quote by Elliott Abrams

The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments.

— Elliott Abrams

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

— Daniel Ellsberg

I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have seen what…

— Thomas Jefferson

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in…

— Walter Savage Landor

A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft.…

— Joseph Cook

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

— Horace Mann

People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by…

— Friedrich Engels

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

— Naftali Bennett

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

— Glenn Greenwald

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

— Alan Watts