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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
«ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absolute monarchy, assassins, by chance, curtail, left most, monarchies, monarchy, pleases, replaced, The Assassins
«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
«Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
affront, affronts, aristocracies, defect, degrade, flourish, loyal, monarchies, oppress
«An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, monarchies, monarchy, support, The monarchy
