Monarchy Quotes

141 Monarchy quotes by 116 unique authors

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
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. — Tom Hooper
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly… — Elliott Abrams
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. — James Hunter
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free. — Anatole France
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu
I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's… — Anthony Holden
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before,… — David Starkey
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant… — Winston Churchill
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. — John Kenneth Galbraith
When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended,… — Karl Marx
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. — Ben Jonson
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. — Edward Gibbon
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own… — James F. Cooper
It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do. — Princess Diana
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a… — Friedrich Engels
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a… — Damien Hirst

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