Absolute monarchy Quote by John Locke

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

— Benjamin Whichcote

The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to…

— Alexander Hamilton

“When we survey the wretched conditions of man, under the monarchical and hereditary systems of Government, dragged from his home by one power, or…

— Thomas Paine

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

— Alan Watts

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“When you set aside mere names & come down to realities, you find that we are ruled by a King just as other absolute…

— Arthur L. Scott

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and…

— John Adams

“No political system ever perfectly expresses the needs of its society. No society in the English colonies constructed political arrangements completely faithful to itself.”

— Robert Middlekauff

Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of…

— Dante Alighieri

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance…

— Emma Goldman

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms…

— Edmund Burke

“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