Monarchy Quotes

I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.

It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

Kill the king but spare the man.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.

There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].

I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

In sovereignty there are no gradations.

I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that’s out of kings.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

Around thrones the thunder rolls.

With kings and queens inside his bag. Hulaki was a man of power.

You don't turn your back on your destiny.

...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them.

If you're KING be aware of KINGS!

. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race, and against the legislator of the universe, which is n

How remorseless must one be find pleasure in riding a Wilhelmina golden coach in the 21st century.

How could the eagle-eyed politicians of The Hague, who specialized in pointing out the tiniest specks in other people’s eyes, overlook someone riding a racist coach in their own neighborhood?