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• We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.

  Angela Davis

  Daughter, Queens, Kings

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• I love everything I do and I can still remember the days of cashing my first royalty check for $2. I have such a great life, I'm proud of everything.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Proud, Remember

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• If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

  George Will

  Jobs, Ordinary, Gone

  George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

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• Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
  [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

  Ovid

  Kings, Hands, Long

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• I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

  Elizabeth I

  Thank God, Quality, Able

  Speech to Members of Parliament, 5 Nov. 1566

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• I am monarch of all I survey,
  My right there is none to dispute,
  From the centre all round to the sea,
  I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

  William Cowper

  Sea, Fowl, Lord

  1782 Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez'.

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• Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kings, Majority, Vulgarity

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.304, e-artnow

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• Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hurt, Giving, Give Me

  "Montaigne's Essays".

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• A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

  Ben Jonson

  Eye, Government, Letters

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3197, Delphi Classics

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• [On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

  Princess Margaret

  Zoos, Tea, Usual

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• You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  What Matters, Two, Smell

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”

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• In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Meaningful, Issues, Corporations

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• Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
  [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

  Horace

  People, Monarchs

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

  King Edward VIII

  Love, Kings, Women

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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• Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

  Clarence Darrow

  Art, Book, Writing

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• The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

  Walter Bagehot

  Kings, Rights, Three

  The English Constitution "The Monarchy (continued)" (1867)

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• If you are not royalty, He is not King.

  Beth Moore

  God, Christian, Kings

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• A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

  Walter Bagehot

  Pride, Ideas, Interesting

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.

  Mark Riebling

  Princess, Italian, Medicine

  "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.

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• God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine,
  For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;
  And as their subjects ought them to obey,
  So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

  King James I

  Kings, Giving, Thrones

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• A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

  James F. Cooper

  Power, Government, Intimidating

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• To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.
  [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Kings, Roi, Know How

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• I am being embezzled from by this monstrous ring of accountants and estate planners and lawyers, who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.

  Randy Quaid

  Believe, Order, Careers

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• I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

  Queen Victoria

  Good Woman, Reign, Feminine

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• It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
  [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

  Ovid

  Hands, Firm

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