Britain Quote by John Lithgow

I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth…

— Abigail Adams

“The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for…

— Henry David Thoreau

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica…

— Gore Vidal

“During the first part of the 1930s, Spain saw the fall of its monarchy, its first democracy, a major revolutionary insurrection, an attempted military…

— Geoffrey Jensen

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

— John Lithgow

I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

— Alison Jackson

Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation…

— William Rees-Mogg

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and…

— Christopher Hitchens

This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had…

— Gordon S. Wood

“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote…

— Christopher Hitchens

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that…

— Mark Helprin

Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.

— John Lithgow