Quotes Tagged With :monarchy

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that’s out of kings.

There are three kinds of constitution, and an equal number of deviation-forms--perversions, as it were,....

In every reign there comes one night of greatest blackness, when a King must send away his court of flatterers....

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond....

After a democratic interlude the "monarchy" returns with a vengeance, returns by the back door, camouflaged,....

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of....

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country....

Just as the Netherlands was the last country to abolish slavery, they are still the last one opulently....

A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail....

This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point....