History Quote by Isaac Asimov

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore…

— Isaac Asimov

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government…

— Walter Bagehot

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make…

— Frank Herbert

“The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise authority yet…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

— Ambrose Bierce

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his…

— James F. Cooper

“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or…

— Gordon S. Wood

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had…

— Ambrose Bierce

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a…

— Fisher Ames

The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by the despotism…

— Edward Gibbon

“Kingship was the supreme form of government, and was believed to be in the natural order of things. It did not need physical strength…

— Julius Evola