Monarchy Quotes - Page 6

• If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting.

  Hilary Mantel

  Couple, Interesting, Mind

  Source: www.newrepublic.com

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• I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Believe, Justice

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• By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister says that instead of the monarchy he would prefer an entirely Canadian institution, but he fails to recognize that the monarchy is as Canadian as the House of Commons itself.

  Elsie Wayne

  Loyalty, Years, Two

  Elsie Wayne during House of Commons Debates, www.parl.gc.ca. October 8, 2002.

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• The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

  Lytton Strachey

  Peace, War, Brilliant

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics

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• The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Law, Age

  'Mysticism and Logic' (1919)

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• The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

  Abdallah II

  Son, Hands, My Son

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• It would be a foetus of monarchy!

  Edmund Randolph

  Would Be, Revolution, American Revolution

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• I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Crazy, Party, Thinking

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• Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy, who signed the cheques. The longer the war went on, the stronger parliament became, as the purse on which it sat grew bigger and bigger.

  Simon Schama

  Kings, Military, War

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• Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

  David Starkey

  Kings, Powerful, History

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• Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I.

  Jack Layton

  Dad, Thinking, People

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• The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting - it squints towards monarchy. And does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king. Where are your checks in this government? I would rather infinitely - and I am sure most of this convention are of the same opinion - have a king, lords, and commons than a government so replete with such insupportable evils.

  Patrick Henry

  Beautiful, Kings, Squinting

  Speech, www.let.rug.nl. June 07, 1788.

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• The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Rome, Democracy

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• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Funny, Jesus, Kings

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• Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

  Peter McWilliams

  Men, Thinking, Luxury

  Peter McWilliams (1995). “Love 101: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

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• A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

  David Hume

  Liberty, Revolution, Few Words

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• Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

  David Hume

  Death, Constitution, Euthanasia

  David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.32

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• The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

  Elizabeth I

  Death, Names, Dying

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• In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Law

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• When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Luxury, Government, Long

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• It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Queens, Two, Canada

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• I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Education, Time, Teaching

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• Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.

  W. H. Auden

  Summer, Waiting, Important

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• There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Leadership, Kings, Queens

  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 perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

  C. S. Lewis

  Military, War, Thinking

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