Monarchy Quotes

141 Monarchy quotes by 116 unique authors

Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form… — Pierre Trudeau
Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My… — Jack Layton
By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the… — Unknown Author
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an… — Florence King
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the… — Lytton Strachey
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their… — Edmund Burke
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then… — David Starkey
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy,… — Simon Schama
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy. — Karl Liebknecht
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft… — Fisher Ames
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’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

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