Monarchy Quotations

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well.

My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.

We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

Monarchy is the root cause of the crisis plaguing the country. Therefore, for the country to come out of this crisis, a complete demolition of monarchy is a must. Only then is a solution possible.

She feared that if he married a divorcee it would throw the monarchy into crisis again, and I think that is why he never did so during her lifetime.

She had begun to reinvent the role of the monarchy for the 21st century, starting when she shook hands with an AIDS victim,

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

France is an absolute monarchy tempered by songs

Here lies a King that ruled, as he thought fit, / The universal monarchy of wit.

Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

There is likely to be a sharp polarization on whether to retain a ceremonial monarchy or retain the monarchy at all.

We are saying what we have always said - that the political parties and the monarchy have to work together and take forward the process of reconciliation and dialogue and develop a national consensus.

We want the end of autocratic monarchy and there should be no compromise with the King.

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

Two forces which are the worst enemies of civil freedom are the absolute monarchy and the revolution

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

This is a very clear warning to the king that even people supportive of the monarchy want him to only have a ceremonial role and the anger on the streets reflects that.

Camilla is well and truly in the fold. She has taken a leading position in the monarchy and is effectively going to be queen one day.

It is worthless to talk individually about a republican set up sitting inside a room unless people express their tremendous support for this. If the king does not accept multiparty democracy, human rights and press freedom in the country, we will say that the monarchy is not needed by us either.

We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.

They haven't come up with a vision for what if the monarchy is abolished. To the extent of opposing the king, the seven parties are together. He is the cement that holds them together. I doubt whether if the king were not there, they would be unified.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

Rwanda is a monarchy not a democracy.

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

Monarchy is only the string that ties the robber's bundle.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

In sovereignty there are no gradations.