Top 20 Monarchy Quotes - Quoted Daily

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

Democracy, Monarchy, Rwanda

"Paul Kagame Interview in Jeune Afrique: 'Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy'". umuvugizi.wordpress.com. April 9, 2016.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

Garry Kasparov

Chess, Bigamy, Monarchy

Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family.

Steven Morrissey

Important, British Monarchy, Useless

"Morrissey Slams Kate Middleton, Prince Harry & ‘Useless’ Royal Family" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Edward Gibbon

Government, History, British Monarchy

Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.197

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Support, Aristocracy, Monarchy

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

Karl Liebknecht

Life Is, Aim, Monarchy

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

Seneca the Younger

God, Born, Monarchy

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Mark Twain

Republic, Citizenship, Monarchy

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7247, Delphi Classics

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

Alexander Hamilton

Democracy, Too Much, Monarchy

Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.417

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

Sue Townsend

Monarchy, Stills, Corpses

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

Princess Diana

People, Trying, Monarchy

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Infinite, Reverence, Monarchy

"Patriot King" in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 224-226), 1904.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Harold Wilson

Monarchy, Labor, Industry

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

Ezra Stiles

Aristocracy, Chance, Monarchy

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

Damien Hirst

Real, British Monarchy, Kind

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Anthony Sampson

Egyptian, Liable, Monarchy

Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

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

Charles James Fox

Europe, British Monarchy, Unlimited

"Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 194), 1997.

The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.

John Nichol

Kings, Injustice, Monarchy

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Benjamin Disraeli

Civilization, Tendencies, Monarchy

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, Cures, Monarchy

Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.314