Monarchy Quotes · Page 6

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

— Voltaire

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

— Ben Jonson

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

— Anatole France

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Lord Acton

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

— John Lithgow

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no…

— Ernest Hemingway

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

— Raoul Vaneigem

Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none…

— Elizabeth I

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will…

— Anna Julia Cooper

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

— David Brooks

I have only met Prince Charles once, when he was very charming and easy to chat to. I have always had a…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

In the early 20th century the monarchy was held up as the archetypical virtuous British family. In the late 20th century it…

— David Starkey

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had…

— Max Hastings

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like…

— Bertrand Russell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members…

— Alastair Campbell

In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most…

— Edward Gibbon

Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has…

— C. S. Lewis

There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not…

— David Cannadine

It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that…

— Thomas Paine

To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those…

— Edward Gibbon

Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Kingsley Martin

“value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.”

— Charles Emmerson

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

— Ezra Stiles

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

— Ferdinand Lassalle

The rule of law is a republic. The rule of one person is a monarchy.

— Lee Zeldin

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

— Princess Diana

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

— Anonymous

What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.

— David Starkey

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

— Hilary Mantel

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Jefferson Smith

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

— Mark Twain

You can't keep an old monarchy in 2021. You can't do that. They need to come up-to-date with the times.

— Leon Edwards

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

— James Hunter

Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran.

— David Ignatius

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

— Elizabeth I