Quotes About Monarchy

Although Portugal was celebrated for leading Europe into the Age of Discovery, Portuguese kings often frustrated their heroic mariners.

and disappointed King Ferdinand clapped Solis in jail.

when King Manuel wished to take the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella as his wife

Two of the most consequential figures of this era, Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth, knew the expedition's true purpose:

Manuel abruptly changed his mind, decided to remain on the throne, and arranged to marry his son's fiancée

Leonor, the twenty-year-old sister of King Charles of Spain.

For four anxious years, from 1554 to 1558, he was the jure uxoris king of England

He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.

There was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen

king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes,

large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer

the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of

authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England;

plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords

a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves

throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was

and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea," Walter Bagehot wrote in 1867. "It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life." He warned, however, against too much exposure of the personal monarchy: "If you begin to poke about it, you cannot reverence it.… Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.

The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.

O'Gorman mostró ahí que el triunfo de la república contra el monarquismo durante el siglo XIX no fue la fácil victoria nativa sobre una pasión foránea y caprichosa. Por el contrario: durante trescientos años de vida colonial, la única legitimidad política que conoció el reino de la Nueva España, matriz de la nación mexicana, fue la legitimidad monárquica.