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Letter "T" » The monarchy
«People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.»
Author: Friedrich Engels
| Keywords:
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«Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, bloody, Commit Suicide, exhausts, lasts, monarchies, monarchy, murders, The monarchy, wastes
«Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos»
Author: Polybius
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, degenerated, degenerates, monarchies, monarchy, oligarchies, oligarchy, savage, The monarchy
«Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
monarchies, republics, ruins, The monarchy
«Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
fairest, forms of government, hereditary, hereditary monarchy, monarchies, monarchy, prevailed, ridicule, scope, The monarchy, various
«It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.»
«ALLIGATOR, n. The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alligator, alligators, crocodile, crocodiles, detail, effete, Go West, Grown up, Herodotus, Indus, monarchies, notch, Old World, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles, The monarchy
«Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absolute monarchy, atheism, dismount, dismounted, dismounts, erects, guides, monarchies, monarchy, moral philosophy, natural philosophy, outward, piety, superstition, The monarchy, vanished
«Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Citizenship
| Keywords:
citizenship, get along, monarchies, republic, The monarchy
«An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, monarchies, monarchy, support, The monarchy
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