1. "Sasanian monarchy and the fabled Kayanid"
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Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
2. "monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government."
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense
3. "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."
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Quote by Henry David Thoreau
4. "Money rather than monarchy and plutocracy rather than theocracy are the chief threats to republicanism today."
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Os Guinness, A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future
5. "When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay"
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John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay
6. "that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy. "
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense
7. "He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes."
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Charles A. Beard, History of the United States
8. "But in Jordan, it is hard to imagine a more moderate and pro-Western regime than the current undemocratic monarchy."
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Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
9. "For a Monarchy readily becomes a Tyranny, an Aristocracy an Oligarchy, while a Democracy tends to degenerate into Anarchy."
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Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
10. "An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins."
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Quote by Ambrose Bierce