Quotes of: Monarchies Keyword

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the mes...

Anthony Holden

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

Viggo Mortensen

What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy.

Robert Lacey

You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.

Anthony Holden

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot ...

Daniel Radcliffe

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Harold Wilson

I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.

King Felipe VI

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

Karl Liebknecht

The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.

Mark McKinney

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Charles de Montesquieu

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

Ezra Stiles

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

Heather Brooke

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Charles de Secondat

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Ezra Stiles

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

Algernon Sidney

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

Princess Diana

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Tom Hooper

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.

Martin Van Buren

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

Abdallah II of Jordan

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

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