Belief Quote by Friedrich Engels

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in…

— Friedrich Engels

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

— Heather Brooke

“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the…

— Aristotle

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism…

— Earl Warren

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but…

— Baron de Montesquieu

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

[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy…

— Fisher Ames

“Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual as the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy,…

— Stacy Schiff

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do…

— Michel de Montaigne

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a…

— Benito Mussolini

“A general State educationis a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts…

— Anonymous