Monarchs Quotes

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus

Life, Cannot, Free

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden

Fate, Subject, Obey

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Horace Walpole

Place, Ambition, High

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Elizabeth I

War, Death, Put

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

Mind, Long, Human

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
Julie Burchill

Made, Here, City

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
J. M. Roberts

Respect, Greatest, Themselves

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