Accounts Quote by Robert Graves

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

— Heather Brooke

“Let kings estimate their prosperity, not by the righteousness, but by the servility of their subjects. Let the provinces stand loyal to the kings,…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make…

— Frank Herbert

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account.…

— Herodotus

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

— Jan Smuts

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny…

— Lord Chesterfield

“value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.”

— Charles Emmerson

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they…

— Walter Bagehot

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his…

— James F. Cooper

“It is *essential* to such a government, that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or…

— James Madison

“Do you think that I want to live in a communal society with people like that Battaglia acquaintance of yours, sweeping streets and breaking…

— John Kennedy Toole

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

— Hilary Mantel