Quotes About Monarchy

I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

I was happy to be in England because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I. My mother had every memento you could find on the Queen.

A King and Queen can comfort the people in times of grief, and provide a nationalist camaraderie. That is the gift that royalty can give back.

The thing is, I was always a republican, but I have to say I've become completely obsessed with the Queen.

Prince Philip protected the Queen and made her laugh.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

It's a primitive thing, kings and queens.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

It's funny - Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we're fascinated by them.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

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

The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to punish, as for the abuse of republican reforms, by making us feel all the weight of absolute monarchy.

Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.

A king without power is an absurdity.

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

Who so pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is trueborn King of all Britain.

Tocqueville presciently claimed that the strength of the American government was to a large extent the result of its democratic incapacity to run the nation and the economy as coherently and effectively as a monarchical or autocratic government might run it.

I am a Little King, but I am a King.

God Save the King

Ah, the marvel of queens. Even in ancient times he had heard talk of queens protecting their kingdoms, while kings go forth to conquer new ones, of queens protecting their power, while kings seek more. And in modern times, he had heard tell of a great queen, Elizabeth of England, who had followed this very path, protecting her great kingdom and its far-flung colonies, but never initiating a war to gain increased power or land.

The book is Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158–1203, by Judith A. Everard

I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

Wherever, therefore, any number of men so unite into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of Nature, and to resign it to the public, there, and there only, is a political or civil society. [....] Hence it is evident that absolute monarchy, which by some men [e.g., Hobbes] is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil government at all.