We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras. — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The more unpopular politicians are, the better people think it is to have a monarchy. — Sarah Bradford Copy Share Image
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about… — Pauline Quirke Copy Share Image
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It was Napoleon who said if you want to understand a man, look at the world as it was when he was… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Had I realized while on Earth," he said, "that Hell was such a delightful place, I should have put more faith in… — Frederic Arnold Kummer Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
“The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Most people are not aware that there is a German royal family. In fact as a young man I dated a young… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ...… — Abdallah II Copy Share Image
The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
![“The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.” quote by Pierre Corneille](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/723/pierre-corneille-2033_citizens_the-universe-has-no-prince-or-king-that_2367139.jpg)
![“I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts and getting to know her, it was how conflicted her position and her internal life - or self - was. She is so fiercely royal and so fiercely "sister of the queen" or "daughter of the king"…” quote by Vanessa Kirby](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9d4/vanessa-kirby-7869_book_i-knew-she-was-a-party-girl-the-book-i-l_3186926.jpg)
