#monarch

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#monarchical #prerogatives #sick

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#life #monarchy #my life #overthrow

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#monarchy #unlimited-power #leadership

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#king #like #monarchy #never #our

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#crook #destitute #i #monarch #sooner

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#intensive #labor #monarchy

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#freeing #grasp #human #human mind #itself

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. ↗

— William Hague

#bill of rights #freedom #freedom of speech #freely #intended

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#argument #blame #blaming #i #message

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#beyond #could #damage #done #enormous