98 Quotes About Monarchy

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

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

Wherever, therefore, any number of men so unite into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of Nature, and to resign it to the public, there, and there only, is a political or civil society. [....] Hence it is evident that absolute monarchy, which by some men [e.g., Hobbes] is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil government at all.

An error in the doctrine of God will have inevitable consequences in the sphere of action, of moral behaviour, of the polity of the Church, and of basic culture and social organization. A change in the doctrine of the Trinity in either of these directions cannot help but have political consequences.Farrell, commenting on Nazianzen's connection between Trinity and Holy Monarchy

[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.

The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride?

After all, the monarchy was a thousand-year-old tradition, while broadband had only existed for less than a decade.

If this had been France, and the Queen had been Louis XIV, it would have been done by now-but it was England, Parliament had its knobby fingers around the Monarch’s throat, and Whigs and Tories were joined in an eternal shin-kicking contest to determine which faction should have the honor of throttling her Majesty, and how hard.

I must confess, it puzzles me. You Americans went to such trouble to rid yourself of our quaint little monarchy.""Oh we like to gossip about them, all right. Just not to let them rule over us and all that.