Monarchy Quotes

141 quotes by 116 authors

I donâ€™t like to badmouth people. But Iâ€™m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and Iâ€™m apparently more modern than… — Queen Elizabeth II
It would be a foetus of monarchy! — Edmund Randolph
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. — Abdallah II
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only… — Bertrand Russell
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search… — Frederick Douglass
Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself,… — Ulysses S. Grant
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or… — Robert Anton Wilson
The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of… — Henry George
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a… — Mark Twain
It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies. — Tony Snow
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;… — Ishmael Reed
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency… — Al Gore
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom. — Seneca the Younger
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the… — Karl Marx
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are… — Thomas Paine
One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because… — Calvin Trillin
The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the… — Ruhollah Khomeini
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. — Anthony Sampson
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place… — Anna Julia Cooper

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