Quotes About Monarchy

The establishment of the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867 had brought an interlude of peace and prosperity, and a lifting of restrictions against Jews, to a country best known, according to Klári von Neumann, "for the gallantry of its men, the beauty of its women, and last, but not least, for its hopelessly unhappy and unlucky history.

frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

that frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal 'honour' and court etiquette.

Qué año sería eso? Por allí por la misma época en que murió Pedro, me parece. El joven necesitaba título de rey para realizar el enlace y como su padre no pensaba dejarle el trono todavía, decidieron que Chile sería un reino y Felipe su soberano, lo que no mejoró nuestra suerte, pero nos dio categoría.

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other, the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.

A monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom, whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

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.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

Louis XIV] announced that he would now rule absolutely, without a council of advisors... No French king had ruled without advisors for almost a hundred years. And no one believed that this elegant young man... would be an efficient ruler.

During [Louis XIV]'s reign, France became the largest and most important nation in Europe.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

The strength of a kingdom comes from its King, The strength of a King comes from his Queen.

All this to drive home the simple face that human government - whether it be dictatorship, monarchy, or government of the people, by the people, for the people - had to perish from the Earth. - The Thunderhead

There is no reasonable, stable government save the aristocratic. Monarchy and republic, based on democracy, are equally weak and absurd. … There exist but three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create. Other men are serfs or slaves, created for the stable, that is, to exercise what are called professions.

Trying to build up the colonial population, the monarchy ordered that female African slaves be awarded to every new male European arrival, along with exhortations to breed.

The idiot child they've placed on the throne does not impress with his acumen.

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.