Hereditary Kingdom of Norway/the Kingdom of Denmark-norway

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    People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
    Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)

    Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in John, 3:3.

    Spoken to the Pharisee Nicodemus.

    Such was the very armor he had on
    When he the ambitious Norway combated.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)