History Quote by Harlow Giles Unger

“How shameful it is that you remain estranged from Your authority! ‘You’, the holder of all the authority, the owner of a vast kingdom,…

— Dada Bhagwan

“the inhumation of surplus monarchs was a regular source of work for the Assassins’ Guild. There was always someone back home who wanted to…

— Terry Pratchett

“I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But…

— Fidel Castro

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some…

— William Shakespeare

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

— Elizabeth I

“He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.”

— Charles A. Beard

“This is grace: the King died to dethrone kings so that he would be their King forever and ever and ever.”

— Paul David Tripp

“Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”

— William Penn

“In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of…

— Charles River Editors

“No sooner are her glass toes thrust into the mud grave than the revolutions begin. Uprisings, fire and steel. The prince is lynched in…

— Allyse Near

“Exiled by death from people we have known, We are reduced again by years, and try To call them back and clothe the barren…

— Donald Hall