Monarchy/history

Famous quotes containing the words monarchy and/or history:

“How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)