Monarchy Quotes
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Monarchy Quotes & Sayings
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British monarchy exists not to exercise power but to keep other people from having the power.
— Ketevan Gogelia
Men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them. — Xenophon
Around thrones the thunder rolls.
— C.J. Sansom
The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.
— Heather Brooke
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
— Edward Gibbon
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
— Voltaire
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
— Daniel Ellsberg
Stripped of monarchy and magic spells, he was just a man in a mad world looking for the girl who shared his heart.
— Alethea Kontis
The story of the king is the story of the people, and unfortunately, to this day, no king has learned that lesson.
— Rabih Alameddine
The Monarchy ... is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment
— Kingsley Martin
The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.
— Martin Van Buren
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
— Thomas Jefferson
I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.
— Jean-Marc Vallee
Kill the king but spare the man.
— Thomas Paine
Our history told of kings that smiled and kings that conquered. He was the latter.
— Rachel E. Carter
Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran.
— David Ignatius
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."
— Benjamin Franklin
The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.
— John Nichol
With kings and queens inside his bag. Hulaki was a man of power.
— Mahesh Poudyal
How remorseless must one be find pleasure in riding a Wilhelmina golden coach in the 21st century.
— Dauglas Dauglas
An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud
— John Milton
The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.
— Charles Emmerson
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
— Samuel Johnson
In sovereignty there are no gradations.
— Samuel Johnson
If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.
— Alexander Hamilton
It would be a foetus of monarchy!
— Edmund Randolph
All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,From the hector of France to the cully of Britain. — John Wilmot
It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.
— Princess Diana
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.
— Friedrich Engels
Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.
— King Felipe VI
The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.
— Johann Hari
You don't turn your back on your destiny.
— Trine Villemann
Rwanda is a monarchy not a democracy.
— Paul Kagame
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
— Thomas Paine
When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay
— John Taliaferro
The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.
— Robert Lacey
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
— Arthur Schnitzler
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
— Alan Watts
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
— Benjamin Whichcote
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
— Garry Kasparov
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
— Anatole France
How can a republic be the best form of government if the universe, heaven and hell are all a monarchy?
— Alan W. Watts
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
— Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
— Kate Williams
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
— Anthony Holden
When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?
— Arthur Schnitzler
I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.
— Johann Hari
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
— Anthony Sampson
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
— Ferdinand Lassalle
Christianity and monarchy are twin principles.
— Honore De Balzac
Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.
— Franny Billingsley
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
— Tom Hooper
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
— Abdallah II Of Jordan
In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.
— Theodor Mommsen
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.
— Viggo Mortensen
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
— Harold Wilson
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
— Denis Diderot
monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government.
— Thomas Paine
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Sasanian monarchy and the fabled Kayanid
— Tom Holland
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
— Ezra Stiles
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
— Elizabeth I
The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.
— Mark McKinney
For monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be wise. Which is more likely?
— Charles Maurras
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
— Karl Liebknecht
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
— Ezra Stiles
Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.
— Edward Gibbon
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
— Algernon Sidney
There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
— Charles James Fox
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
— Ambrose Bierce
