Monarchy Quotes

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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly… — Walter Bagehot
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to… — Walter Bagehot
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world… — Kim Stanley
In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Collins,… — Sean Young
Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is… — William Rees-Mogg
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. — Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry
Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of… — Terry Pratchett
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people. — Walter Bagehot
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And… — Herodotus
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the… — Friedrich Engels
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is… — Baron de Montesquieu
I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted… — Francois Furet
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the… — Michel de Montaigne
I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European… — Andrew Motion
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all… — Ken Loach

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