quotes about Monarchy
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If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
-- Anthony SampsonSource : Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton
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The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God He lifts me up where I can see clearly, where everything has a distinct contour.
-- Chiang Kai-shek -
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Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.
-- Elizabeth I -
The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
-- Elizabeth I -
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
-- Ezra Stiles -
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
-- Harold Wilson -
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
-- Karl Liebknecht -
Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.
-- Mark Twain -
There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
-- Sarah Moore GrimkeSource : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.59
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The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
-- Sue Townsend -
The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.
-- John Nichol -
Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.
-- Ronald SymeSource : Ronald Syme (2002). “The Roman Revolution”, p.201, OUP Oxford