Monarchy Quotes · Page 6

I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.”

— Charles A. Beard

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

— John Lithgow

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

— Pierre Corneille

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

— Anthony Sampson

I don't think the monarchy is tawdry in the slightest. I think the monarchy is hugely important for Britain.

— Penny Junor

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

— Edward Gibbon

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends…

— James F. Cooper

“[M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum , supporting a mixed…

— Patrick Collinson

I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the…

— Naveen Andrews

I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy.…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that…

— Elizabeth I

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it,…

— Prince Charles

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for…

— Edward Gibbon

Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament,…

— Simon Schama

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we…

— Benjamin Franklin

I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have…

— Thomas Jefferson

It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Aristotle

“Contrary to the myth that the British Royals were no longer all-powerful, it was common knowledge within Omega and other organizations in…

— James Morcan

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and…

— Jerry Della Femina

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms…

— Aristotle

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

— Daniel Ellsberg

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

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

— Martin Luther

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Sarah Moore Grimke

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

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

— Anthony Holden

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

— Ezra Stiles

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

— Anne Applebaum

The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.

— John Nichol

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

— Alan Watts