Monarchy Quotes

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The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

It would be a foetus of monarchy!

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].