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

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people. — Heather Brooke

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species. — Voltaire

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing. — Damien Hirst

Stripped of monarchy and magic spells, he was just a man in a mad world looking for the girl who shared his heart. — Alethea Kontis

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy. — Sting

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it. — Mark Twain

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy. — Alan Watts

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. — Martin Van Buren

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy. — Jean-Marc Vallee

Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran. — David Ignatius

value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics. — Charles Emmerson

How remorseless must one be find pleasure in riding a Wilhelmina golden coach in the 21st century. — Dauglas Dauglas

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom. — Seneca The Younger

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible — Mark Twain

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. — Samuel Johnson

All groups are a little intimidated by ya show of power. I mean who ever thought the monarchy was dead didn't realize it changed zip codes. - Cross — Mira Monroe

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it." — Benjamin Franklin

When [Servius Galba] was a commoner he seemed too big for his station, and had he never been emperor, no one would have doubted his ability to reign. — Tacitus

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy. — Napoleon Bonaparte

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay — John Taliaferro

Rwanda is a monarchy not a democracy. — Paul Kagame

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. — Friedrich Engels

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one. — Viggo Mortensen

It would be a foetus of monarchy! — Edmund Randolph

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy. — Alexander Hamilton

With kings and queens inside his bag. Hulaki was a man of power. — Mahesh Poudyal

You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace. — Graham Greene

I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time. — King Felipe VI

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king. — Henry Ford

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nations mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nations needs. — Jan Smuts

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act. — Ferdinand Lassalle

[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one. — Plutarch

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power. — Thomas Paine

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state. — Johann Hari

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

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street. — Anthony Holden

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. — Henry David Thoreau

How can a republic be the best form of government if the universe, heaven and hell are all a monarchy? — Alan W. Watts

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free. — Anatole France

That a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy. — Thomas Paine

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. — Sue Townsend

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy]. — Charles James Fox

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy. — Edward Gibbon

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. — Ezra Stiles

For monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be wise. Which is more likely? — Charles Maurras

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained. — Theodor Mommsen

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. — Harold Wilson

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich. — Tom Hooper

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy. — Jack Kingston