GoodQuotes.com

Top Monarchy Quotes

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

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

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Friedrich Engels

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

Sue Townsend

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Raoul Vaneigem

Famous Monarchy Authors

Edward Gibbon

John Adams

James F. Cooper

Sue Townsend

Princess Diana

George Andrew Olah

Ferdinand Lassalle

Harold Wilson

Lytton Strachey

Anthony Sampson

Daniel Ellsberg

Ezra Stiles

More authors »

All Monarchy Quotes

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

46% of people like this quote

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Prince Charles

45% of people like this quote

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

Anthony Holden

44% of people like this quote

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

Anthony Sampson

44% of people like this quote

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

Jack Kingston

44% of people like this quote

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

Ezra Stiles

43% of people like this quote

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

George Andrew Olah

40% of people like this quote

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

39% of people like this quote