Monarchy Quote by Plutarch

“it is certain that seditions, wars, and contempt or breach of the laws are not so much to be imputed to the wickedness of…

— Spinoza

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

— Charles A. Beard

“We are all in favour of monarchy. It is just that we cannot renounce our mission and the struggle we are conducting against an…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“Even if you hadn't entirely deposed (and possibly killed) not one but two governments and destabilized all sorts of political regions you couldn't even…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.”

— Edmund Burke

“Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of…

— Kenneth O. Gangel

“The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.”

— Ken Follett

“If you are not a king, do not accept the throne, which is the sit of your downfall.”

— Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

“If a king should fall under such contempt or envy that he could not keep his subjects in their duty but by oppression and…

— Thomas More

“What I have here advanced is confirmed by the unanimous testimony of historians, and is extremely agreeable to the nature of things. For it…

— Anonymous

“The outcome is to delegitimize and deconstruct the kings in effective ways in order to show that while they occupy the forms of power,…

— Walter Brueggemann

“Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman