I beheld absolutism in all its power; and I felt encouraged to enter into a struggle against Augustin I.
It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.
Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.
An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
A President in a sense is an elected kingship.
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
It would be a foetus of monarchy!
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No, to this question, is an independent, for independency means no more than this, whether we shall make our own law, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy which this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us there shall be no laws but such as I like.
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
For the welfare of the state, the one of my sons to whom God grants the Sultanate may lawfully put his brothers to death.
Mohammed the Conqueror
That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.
I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.
A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
