If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
Quotes about monarchies (11 Quotes)
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye.
The Queen is contemptuous of monarchies that do pick and choose and do retire. One inherits after the other dies -- that's it.
ALLIGATOR, n. The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.
ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.
With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd A pillar of state deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air.
In his later reminiscences, Ulysses S. Grant roundly condemned the Mexican War in which he had served, and even saw the Civil War as a sort of karmic retribution for America's sins against its southern neighbor 'Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation of Texas was consummated or not but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.'
But sooner or later, in a hard-bitten capital consumed in scandal, war and competition with rising powers like China, might the royal family ever be considered irrelevant and thus dropped from the dinner list That could happen, ... But I hope not in my lifetime. I was born dreaming of monarchies. I want to die that way.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.