Quotes About Monarchy

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

There's such divinity doth hedge a king,That treason can but peep to what it would.

The Queen's bum remained purple. She showed it to everyone in the country when she gave her yearly speech to the nation on Christmas Day, calling it her 'anus horribilis'.

And royalty are immune from homicidal tendencies? Study your history, Stoker. I think you will discover that is how most of them became royal in the first place.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

Por eso estaba convencido de la necesidad de mantener la institución monárquica, porque pensaba que en un país con tantos esclavos, analfabetos y pobres, una república no tendría sentido y el país acabaría fragmentándose, como había sucedido en la América española.

A king had to die so a republic could live.

Thus the cerebral footings were laid. Voltaire preferred intellectual liberty and enlightened despotism. Montesquieu wanted limited monarchy and a separation of political powers. Rousseau dreamed of an ideal republican commonwealth.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King." And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.

Dinin ard?na s???n?r monar?iler, Oysa do?as?nda ateisttir devletler.

When these with violence were burned to death, We wished for our Elizabeth.

But I wish you to know that, were I just Edward and you just Jane, I would prefer to marry you. We accord well together, and have similar views… Kings cannot make their own choices. I wished you to know that

Five decades on the throne and this is how they treat me, Ms. Blakely. Makes me wish I'd been a teacher." His voice drops. He almost sounds a little wistful. "I would have liked to have been a teacher.

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

Many Americans remain very interested in royal goings-on in general, and not just because of their soap-opera appeal. To a greater degree than any other polity, Britain functions as Americans' defining 'other.'

Abolish the monarchy. That is my populist take.

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

Liberal" in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first century. They embraced minimal government, a free market economy, individualism, and property rights; they attacked slavery, aristocracy, monarchy, standing armies, the Catholic Church, and hereditary authority.

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatiana?s funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen

Queen Vasilisa Sabina Rhea Dragomir, first of her name.

But in Jordan, it is hard to imagine a more moderate and pro-Western regime than the current undemocratic monarchy.