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Monarchy Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- 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…
- The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to…
- The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.
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- In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they… — Julie Burchill
- Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can… — Abdallah II
- Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it,… — Prince Charles
- It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it… — James Madison
- The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg
- The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. — Harold Wilson
- I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able… — James Bryce
- Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we… — Benjamin Franklin
- Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of… — George Washington
- We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober… — Thomas Jefferson
- Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,… — Mark Twain