Monarchy Quotes

• Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

  Denis Diderot

  Atheist, Kings, Men

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• The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mean, Democracy, Three

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• A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

  George Eliot

  Kings, Men, Royalty

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4074, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Loyalty, Believe, Focus

  "Civil List". publications.parliament.uk.

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• Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Kings, Stars

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• If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

  Jan Smuts

  Mind, Doe, Needs

  Remark to Princess Frederica of Greece. "Now You Know Royalty". Book by Doug Lennox, p. 57, 2009.

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• Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Queens, Thinking, Government

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• The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

  Winston Churchill

  Queens, Winning, Battle

  "Churchill v Toynbee" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Wisdom, Republic, Politics

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• I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy. The monarch offers identity across generations, and is a part of these roots and this native country.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Country, Believe, Roots

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

  Ezra Stiles

  Government, Perfect, Infinite

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• The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Life Is, Aim

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• For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Sky, Republic

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• We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

  Seneca the Younger

  God, Born, Has Beens

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• Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

  Prince Charles

  Attitude, People, History

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Kings And Queens, Interesting

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Monarchy'

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• I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

  Voltaire

  Two, Stronger, Lions

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

  Anthony Sampson

  Egyptian, Liable, Opening

  Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

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• And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

  William Shakespeare

  Fearless, Mind, Crowns

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.8, l.62.

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• The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

  Kingsley Martin

  Secret, Flourishing, Institutions

  "The Crown and the Establishment". Book by Kingsley Martin, London, p. 175,

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• Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

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

  Sue Townsend

  Stills, Corpses, Finished

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• There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

  Elizabeth I

  Country, Sake, Anxious

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

  Princess Diana

  People, Trying

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, History, British Monarchy

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.197

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