Famous quotes containing the words free and/or monarchies:
“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)