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“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”

“In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.”

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Author:Edmund Burke

“Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.”

“Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy, who signed the cheques. The longer the war went on, the stronger parliament became, as the purse on which it sat grew bigger and bigger.”

War States History Military Grew Kings Europe Bigger Stronger Sat Britain Parliament Monarchy Purses British History Cheques

Author:Simon Schama

“The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.”

Life Is Aim Monarchy

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.”

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Author:Fisher Ames

“Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.”

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Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“It would be a foetus of monarchy!”

Would Be Revolution Monarchy American Revolution

Author:Edmund Randolph

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

Hands Son My Son Monarchy

Author:Abdallah II

“The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.”

“Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.”

Source: The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.

“The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.”

Mean Happens Three Democracy Four Worst Hundred Monarchy Assembly Imbeciles

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.”

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Book:Mark Twain at your fingertips

Source: Mark Twain at your fingertips

“There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.”

Ifs Country Dies Willing Ten Sake Anxious Monarchy Monarchs Willing To Die

Author:Elizabeth I

“It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.”

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Author:Tony Snow

“The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.”

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Author:Friedrich Engels

“Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.”

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Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”

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Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.”

Has Beens God Born Monarchy

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.”

Men Believe Wells Ends Government Understanding Wonderful Quiet Taxes Ignorant Mysterious Taxation Revenue Monarchy Mysterious Things

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.”

Doe Christian Suffering White Effects Kings Advantage Queens Monarchy

Book:Uncivil liberties

Source: Uncivil liberties

“The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.”

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Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.”

Opening Monarchy Tombs Liable Egyptian

Book:Anatomy of Britain

Source: Anatomy of Britain

“If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.”

People Ifs Men Giving Doe Done Men And Women Monarchy Something Better

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.”

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Author:Tom Hooper

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