Top 273 Monarchy Quotes & Sayings

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

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.

Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution - perhaps the first modern political institution.

Abolish the monarchy. That is my populist take.

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.

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.

There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].

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

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

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.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they demonstrated that there really is this government that just is the kind of permanent government that doesn’t get affected by election choices and that isn’t in any way accountable to any sort of democratic transparency and just creates its own world off on its own.

The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.

Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

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

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

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.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

The monarchy has almost always been unpopular.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very primitive culture. So, I think we're moving further and further away from that kind of organization of humanity and the same I would say with religion. I think that organized religions, with the exception of Islam, are really falling by the wayside. People are starting to understand that the religious potential is within and that it's an individual pursuit.

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.

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

It would be a foetus of monarchy!

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.

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

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

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

The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

I don't think the monarchy is tawdry in the slightest. I think the monarchy is hugely important for Britain.

One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in the air all over Europe. Because of the unpopularity of his predecessors, one of the things he wanted to do was to establish some sort of credibility to the monarchy.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

The more unpopular politicians are, the better people think it is to have a monarchy.

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

Of all the memorable phrases that have been minted and mobilised to describe modern British royalty, 'constitutional monarchy' is virtually the only one which seemes to have neither been anticipated nor invented by Walter Bagehot. It was he who insisted that 'a princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind'; and he who warned that the monarchy's 'mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic'.

A lot of people would like to see the monarchy scaled down.

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

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

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.

People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

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