Monarchy Quotes · Page 5

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

— Lee Zeldin

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

— Kingsley Martin

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

— Marilyn Ferguson

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

— Elizabeth I

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

— David Ignatius

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

— Horace

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and…

— Tony Snow

Am I a raging monarchist? I suppose I'm a pragmatist and would say that this is a society where we have a…

— Jason Watkins

To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…

— Robert Graves

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly…

— Robert Anton Wilson

It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off…

— Prince William

What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain…

— Robert Lacey

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in…

— Walter Bagehot

Fear and monarchy pair nicely. But democracy means you have to work with people you may not like but you must still…

— Martha Nussbaum

“As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its…

— Stacy Schiff

The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very…

— James Wasserman

Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as…

— John Locke

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

— James Bryce

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

I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts…

— Vanessa Kirby

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

It was Napoleon who said if you want to understand a man, look at the world as it was when he was…

— Gyles Brandreth

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Jefferson Smith

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

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Anonymous

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

— Princess Diana

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

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

— James Hunter

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

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

— Mark Twain

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

— Niels Bohr

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

— Anonymous

I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit…

— Claire Foy

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

— Alan Watts

A constitutional monarchy requires the monarch to be above politics but to be fully informed about politics.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral…

— Queen Elizabeth II