Monarchy Quotes

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

This movement has taken on an anti-monarchy dimension. That's a new component of the whole thing.

There is likely to be a sharp polarization on whether to retain a ceremonial monarchy or retain the monarchy at all.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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 anywhere in the world understand any other.

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

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, they won't have it.

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 power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

The monarchy unites us; the republic would divide us.

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

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 recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

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 Wars of Religion.

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.