Best Monarchy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

Source: 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

“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. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."”

Ifs Wells Doctors Republic Drs Monarchy Franklin Constitutional Convention Constitutional Monarchy

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”

“Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.”

Persons Government Action Nations Interesting Attention Royalty Monarchy Monarchs Kings And Queens Constitutional Monarchy

Author:Walter Bagehot

“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.”

World Reason Government Political Politics Strong Mankind Mass Reason Why Royalty Monarchy Monarchs Constitutional Monarchy Strong Government

Author:Walter Bagehot

“The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.”

Want Three Rights Kings Sovereign Royalty Monarchy Sagacity Constitutional Monarchy

Author:Walter Bagehot

“The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—”

World Ideas Action Citizens Concerned Democratic Corporate Corporations Behave Our Time Absurdity Monarchy

Author:Kim Stanley

“In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Collins, Dupont, Warner, Russell, the world's monarchies, the Vatican. But also prayed upon by these family's employees, by governments, by the military, by banking institutions, by academia. So who does that leave? That's all the people who aren't wealthy, aren't connected, aren't educated, who are easy to manipulate, are easy to persecute and who don't believe any of the issues which you cover on Red Ice. And that's a problem. And that breaks my heart.”

“A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.”

States Government Form Power Depends Active Expensive Royalty Monarchy Intimidating Parades Forms Of Government Monarchs Regal Enterprising Constitutional Monarchy

Author:James F. Cooper

“Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history.”

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

Government Cures Day To Day Federal Government Monarchy

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting - it squints towards monarchy. And does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king. Where are your checks in this government? I would rather infinitely - and I am sure most of this convention are of the same opinion - have a king, lords, and commons than a government so replete with such insupportable evils.”