Monarchical Quotes

#1. The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#2. Ants are terrifying, having survived for 130 million years, evolving into a monarchical society of soldiers with bizarre levels of self sacrifice. Ants keep slaves. I don't crush them, it's pointless, they outnumber humans tenfold by body mass.

Pega Rose

#3. Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

Carl Sandburg

#4. [T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. A man liberated from monarchical or hereditary limitations stood a greater chance of possessing a mind free to roam and to grow and to create and to innovate in a climate in which citizens lived together in essential harmony and affection.87 This was Jefferson's ideal republic - and he was

Jon Meacham

#6. There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

Eduardo Galeano

#7. A monarchical or aristocratic system is not immoral, if the rights and duties of persons and classes are in equilibrium, although the rights and duties of different persons and classes are unequal. An

William Graham Sumner

#8. There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.

Baron De Montesquieu

#9. A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

Thomas Paine

#10. There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Charles De Secondat

#11. Methinks Sir Robert should have carried his Monarchical Power one step higher and satisfied the World, that Princes might eat their Subjects too.

John Locke

#12. Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

George Washington

#13. If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

Anna Howard Shaw

#14. The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

Ezra Stiles

#15. Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

Murray Rothbard

#16. To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Charles Lamb

#17. The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which ... pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

J. F. C. Fuller

#18. I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#19. If the maladministration of the democracy ever brings about a revolutionary crisis, and if monarchical institutions ever become practicable in the United States, the truth of what I advance will become obvious.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#20. Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

George Orwell

#21. Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Bertrand Russell

#22. My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

Anthony Trollope

#23. So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Charles Caleb Colton

#24. Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

W. H. Auden