98 Quotes About Monarchy

There is no such thing as her majesty's government. You can either have his or her majesty or you can have government.

A death-warrant requires a royal signature. And I signed my own. And if your Great and Virgin Queen should wonder why I signed it, you are to tell her this: There is more living in a death that is embraced than in a life that is avoided across three-score years and ten. And I embrace it-thus!

Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That is really very very not very good! My grandfather is weeping in Heaven, or he would if there were such a place, which there is not because religion is a mystification contrived by monarchists! Again! Again, and this time do it properly!

. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race, and against the legislator of the universe, which is nature.[trans. G. Rudé; A Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen].

Some countries believe that, once they have rid themselves of a monarchy and become a republic, they have morphed into a kind of Utopia. When, in fact, they have merely created another set of compromises for themselves.

España daba vueltas en círculos desde los días de los Reyes Católicos: guerras, dictaduras, reyes engendrando hijos idiotas con primas, tías y medio hermanas, la Iglesia, el perpetuo anclaje en el pasado, los militares, más guerras, más curas, más incultura...

Menaphon:Your Majestie shall shortly have your wish,And ride in triumph through Persepolis.Tamburlaine:And ride in triumph through Persepolis?Is it not brave to be a King, Techelles?Usumcasane and Theridamas,Is it not passing brave to be a King,And ride in triumph through Persepolis?

No government is civilized till it abolishes all allegiance to monarchy.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes Titus or Marcus Aurelius; the people is often Nero, and never Marcus Aurelius.