Monarchy Quotes - Page 5

• Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.

  Thomas Merton

  Needs, Asking, Answers

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.

  Ruth Benedict

  Strong, Kings, Freedom

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.392, Transaction Publishers

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• It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Advice, Choices

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• In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Powerful, Luxury

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Power, Desire

  "Nicomède". Play by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene ii, 1651.

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

  John Nichol

  Kings, Injustice, Can Do

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• The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Men, People

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• I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.

  Benjamin Rush

  Christian, Religious, Strong

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• We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

  Moliere

  Art, Eye, Justice

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• I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Beautiful, Past, Thinking

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• La muerte pálida golpea con pie imparcial las casuchas de los pobres y los palacios de los reyes.

  Horace

  Death, Art, Kings

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• Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Giving, Romance

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• In sovereignty there are no gradations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Soberanía

  Thomas M. Curley, Samuel Johnson (1998). “Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson”, p.121, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.

  Emma Goldman

  Character, Government, Color

  Emma Goldman (1998). "Habla Emma la Roja: Una lectora de Emma Goldman"

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• Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

  Ambrose Bierce

  America, Details, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.571, Library of America

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• No puedo evitar coincidir con la opinión de que una democracia absoluta, no más que una monarquía absoluta, debe considerarse entre las formas legítimas de gobierno.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, Democracy, Helping

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.583, Transaction Publishers

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• The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

  Robert Lacey

  Government, British Monarchy, Carter

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• A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.

  Joseph Cook

  Hurt, War, Men

  Joseph Cook (1880). “Labor, with Preludes on Current Events”

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• When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Tears, World

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.33

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• If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous . . . let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Civilization, Names

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.558, e-artnow

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• Cristo seguirá siendo sacerdote y rey; aunque nunca fue consagrado por ningún obispo papista ni engrasado por ninguno de esos afeites; sino que fue ordenado y consagrado por Dios mismo, y por Él ungido.

  Martin Luther

  Kings, Religion, Bishops

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.82

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• Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

  John Milton

  Equality, Splendor, Assuming

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Empires, World

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.19

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• Existen todavía dos formas además de la democracia y la oligarquía; una de ellas es universalmente reconocida e incluida entre las cuatro formas principales de gobierno, que se dice que son (1) la monarquía, (2) la oligarquía, (3) la democracia, y (4) la llamada aristocracia o gobierno de los mejores. Pero existe también una quinta, que conserva el nombre genérico de polity o gobierno constitucional.

  Aristotle

  Names, Two, Generic Name

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

  Lord Acton

  Numbers, Democracy, Aristocracy

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.42, Jazzybee Verlag

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