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  • Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution. -- David Hume
  • I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government. -- Edmund Burke
  • Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men-the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. -- Francis Bacon
  • America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere. -- Florence King
  • In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute. -- Garry Kasparov
  • 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
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