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They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monar...

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

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We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit...

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Thomas MannBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disap...

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

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[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if t...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

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

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Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that ...

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Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that ...

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

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

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Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: ...

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I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may th...

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

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The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means...

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

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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whats...

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Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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

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With a [democratic] government anyone in principle can become a member of the ruling class or even t...

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Hans-Hermann HoppeDemocracy--The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps...

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

All sciences have their mysteries and at certain points the apparently most obvious theory will be f...

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Joseph de MaistreSt Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...

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Karl MarxThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty...

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