Monarchy Quotes

141 Monarchy quotes by 116 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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
Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they… — Glenn Greenwald
We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not… — Thomas L. Thompson
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to… — Robert Graves
The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but… — King James I
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. — Raoul Vaneigem
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose… — George Andrew Olah
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. — Ezra Stiles
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may… — Gregory of Nyssa

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