Cures Quote by Thomas Jefferson

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

— Edmund Burke

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

— Anonymous

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Alan Watts

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

A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft.…

— Joseph Cook

Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to…

— Benjamin Carson

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

— Jeb Bush

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like…

— Elliott Abrams

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they…

— Walter Bagehot

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

— Daniel Ellsberg