Quotes About Monarchy

Frederick was now called "the Great" throughout Europe; and Prussia took her place among the "Five Great Powers." The

Philip V. was left upon the throne of Spain, with the condition that the crowns of Spain and France should never be united. The

He is the son of an anointed and consecrated king, begotten on a lawful wife while he was still king.

The republic is nothing whatever but—absolute monarchy; for it makes no difference whether the monarch is called prince or people, both being a "majesty.

Moral spontaneity" corresponds entirely with "religious and orthodox philosophy", "constitutional monarchy", "the Christian state", "freedom with certain limits", or in a figure, to the hero fetters to a sick bed.

In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.

His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign For she would be Queen of Lumatere. But he would be king to her.

When the king's head fell beneath the guillotine, an unknown man is reported to have leaped onto the scaffold. He dipped his hand in the monarch's blood, flung it out over the surrounding throng and cried, "Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!

The Swedish royal family's legitimacy is even more tenuous. The current king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, is descended neither from noble Viking blood nor even from one of their sixteenth-century warrior kings, but from some random French bloke.

around Frederick, just as it had around George

Second, the age in which we live is one of transitions, an age which in some ways is unparalleled in history, but in other ways is strikingly similar to the successful transition of fledgling Rome from a monarchy to the longest lasting republic in the history of the word.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

Do not confuse democracy, anarchy and monarchy. Because the bees are happy and democratically assigned to their posts despite having the queen as their sole leader.

The English queen refused to give up her crown, but she decided to give up her power and throne instead.

The people of England and their monarchy are only good at trade, but they have little or no experience on the battlefield. Thus, it is impossible for them to be considered a world power.

What is the use of having a king who reigns but does not rule the population?

How swiftly fate can make or unmake kings.

The Duke of York was George III's second son.

He was commander-in-chief because his father was king.

After Napoleon would come his son, if he had one, or his brother's son if he did not.

For a nation that had been without a real head of state since the execution of Louis XVI,

Napoleon was now one of the crowned heads of Europe.

It did not go to King George III.

His Majesty did not open post from dictators.