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Republic - Advocates for the abolition of the monarchy in favour of a British republic.
Campaign Against the Monarchy - Argues that the present British royal family are illegitimate to reign.
ThroneOut - Advocating replacing the monarchy with a republic. Includes articles, features, letters, FAQ and archives.
Guardian Special Reports: The Monarchy - Ongoing collection of news, comment and analysis plus backgrounders, constitutional documents, interactives, quizzes, forum. Web resources including pressure groups and other royal families.
Prince Charles and the Future of the Monarchy - Review by Kevin McKenna of a discussion at a Conservative Christian Fellowship residential weekend. Focuses on the role of the monarch as Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
No More Fairy Tales - Welsh socialist republican analysis of the English monarchy. Facts, figures, analysis and satire on the royal family and the Prince of Wales.
Monarchy Out! - Arguments for why Britain should boot out the monarchy and become a republic.
The Centre for Citizenship - Exploring issues of republican democracy in Britain and the need for reform.
BBC News: Monarchy given old age warning - The Queen should abdicate so the monarchy does not become an institution of the elderly, says an independent think tank.
British Republic - Campaign for an elected head of state for Britain.
Movement Against Monarchy (M'AM) - An organisation opposing monarchy.
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Monarchy "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Monarchy Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg Monarchy "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Monarchy Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Monarchy Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Monarchy The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell Monarchy "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Monarchy Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Monarchy A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Monarchy Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Monarchy Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Monarchy I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Monarchy Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Monarchy After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Monarchy We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Monarchy The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Monarchy "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Monarchy "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Monarchy Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Monarchy It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Monarchy Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Monarchy
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