“Monarchy is God’s sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth. To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards, an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives. Monarchy is a calling from God.”— Peter Morgan, Queen Mary, Eileen Atkins, imdb.com
“Mike Milligan: Sovereignty is absolute power and authority. Ricky G: Like a king? Mike Milligan: Exactly. Which is who I am —your king. Ricky G: Uh, it's America, brother. We don't do kings.”— Noah Hawley, Mike Milligan, Bokeem Woodbine, imdb.com
“The President under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“The Igbo are a very democratic people. The Igbo people expressed a strong antimonarchy sentiment—Ezebuilo—which literally means, a king is an enemy. Their culture illustrates a clear-cut opposition to kings, because, I think, the Igbo people had seen what the uncontrolled power of kings could do.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com