Bears Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that the family…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“He, therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of…

— John Locke

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of…

— John Locke

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.

— Jacques Necker

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Since God will have us leave father and mother for his sake, certainly he will have us leave lords (governors) for his sake.”

— Martin Luther

Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and…

— Tertullian

“The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise,…

— Anonymous

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.…

— James Burgh

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

— Anonymous