We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether…

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

— Ezra Stiles

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

— David Cannadine

The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of…

— Edward Gibbon

I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate…

— James Bryce

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to…

— Aristotle

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

— Margaret Thatcher

I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county…

— Paul Kingsnorth

People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by…

— Friedrich Engels

“The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise,…

— Anonymous

Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A…

— Laura Riding

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of…

— Camille Paglia

Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of…

— Florence King

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Polybius

This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had…

— Gordon S. Wood