Monarchs Quotes - Page 8

• A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power, Risk, Littles

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• Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.

  Garry Wills

  Religious, Military, Army

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• The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.

  Henry Highland Garnet

  Sight, Liberty, Spirit

  Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.48, Gale Cengage Learning

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• Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

  Eva Figes

  Fashion, Strong, Queens

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• I am the monarch of the sea,
  The Ruler of the Queen's Navee,
  Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants
  And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

  Unknown

  Cousin, Queens, Aunt

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• I am called
  The richest monarch in the Christian world;
  The sun in my dominion never sets.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Christian, World, Dominion

  "Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. vi, 1787.

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• God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Infinite, Reverence, Monarchy

  "Patriot King" in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 224-226), 1904.

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• I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Powerful, Past, Expectations

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• Ah, Eugenie. I know. We will be victorious, you and me. We're the strongest monarchs in this world. You and I will lead this army, and we will conquer the Rowan land. We'll split it between us, adding on to our kingdoms...and from there, we can go anywhere. We could rule half this world together - all of this world - you and me. Kingdom after kingdom would fall to us.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Army, Land

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.808, Zebra Books

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• No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

  Tony Benn

  Hands, President, Doe

  Tony Benn, Chris Mullin (1979). “Arguments for socialism”, Jonathan Cape

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• At night returning, every labour sped,
  He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
  His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
  While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
  Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Home, Night

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.139

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• You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Kings, Home, Fire

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

  William Ralph Inge

  Character, Judging, Personality

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• English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Thinking, Self

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.446

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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.

  Jeff Cooper

  Dream, Queens, Exercise

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Bidding, Countenance

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1739, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

  Mark Twain

  School, Sunday, Pirate

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.399, Univ of California Press

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• The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.

  Joseph Conrad

  Death, Wind, Mad

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.4441, e-artnow

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• The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

  Walter Bagehot

  Strong, Government, Political

  The English Constitution "The Monarchy" (1867)

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• He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

  John Dryden

  Victory, Would Be, Poet

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Ben Jonson

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• The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Powerful, Years, Land

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• Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?

  Patrick Henry

  Kings, Fighting, Army

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Samuel Bryan, Patrick Henry (2017). “Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist: The Great Debate (Complete Articles & Essays in One Volume): Words that Traced the Path of the Nation - Founding Fathers’ Political and Philosophical Debate, Their Opinions and Arguments about the Constitution”, p.83, Madison & Adams Press

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• If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.

  John Bates Clark

  Men, Islands, Income

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• We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'

  Pat Buchanan

  Oil, Iraq, America

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• When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

  Anthony Holden

  Taken, Men, Umpires

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