Monarchy Quotes

141 quotes by 118 authors

In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy,… — Julie Burchill
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that… — Abdallah II
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, they won't have… — Prince Charles
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the… — James Madison
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. — Harold Wilson
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a… — James Bryce
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic… — Benjamin Franklin
Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a… — George Washington
We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our… — Thomas Jefferson
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are… — Mark Twain
Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it. — Mark Twain
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors. — Benjamin Whichcote
The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world,… — Torbjorn Tannsjo
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence… — Vladimir Lenin
If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy. — Alexander Hamilton
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for… — Mark Twain
A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can… — Benjamin Franklin
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,… — Abraham Lincoln

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