A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court quotes

I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut—anyway, just over the river, in the country.

“Bridgeport?” said I, pointing. “Camelot,” said he.

There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years

What this folk needed, then, was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them.

The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book. It was found too difficult.

He sleepeth now—and shall sleep thirteen centuries. I am Merlin!

I wanted to say a Yankee mechanic's say against monarchy and its several natural props