Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old monarchy quotes, monarchy sayings, and monarchy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
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
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A monarchy is the most expensive of allforms of government, the regal staterequiring a costly parade, and he whodepends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the activeand enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.James Fenimore Cooper
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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.Henry David Thoreau
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Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.Polybius
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The monarchy is a political referee, not a political player, and there is a lot of sense in choosing the referee by a different principle from the players. It lessens the danger that the referee might try to start playing.Conrad Russell
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The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.Heather Brooke
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.Daniel Ellsberg
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The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.Sue Townsend
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An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.Ambrose Bierce
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.Lord Acton
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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.Ezra Stiles
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A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.Joseph Cook
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.Harold Wilson
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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.Calvin Trillin
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In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.Samuel Adams
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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.King James I
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A dying monarchy is always one that has too much power, not too little; a dying religion always interferes more than it ought, not less.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.Walter Bagehot
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The monarchy unites us; the republic would divide us.Francesco Crispi
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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.Herodotus
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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
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.Samuel Johnson
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A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom, whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.Fisher Ames
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The right kind of monarchy is one where everybody goes about with the permanent conviction that the king can do no wrong.Gilbert K. Chesterton