Freedom Quote by Mehdi Guichi

“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

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Elizabeth I

Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they…

— William Hazlitt

“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

“[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.”

— Plutarch

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

— Herman Melville

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

— Franny Billingsley

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor…

— Seneca the Younger

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

— Homer

Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so…

— Cressida Cowell

The 'Overlord Instinct' or the 'I'm the King of the Castle' syndrome works in our favour when we crush rebellions. The traitors are safe…

— Johannes Dixen