#monarch

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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


#anywhere #best #government #hardly #intelligible

Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.


Abdallah II


#another way #arab #arab world #brotherhood #center

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.


Daniel Ellsberg


#does #empire #monarchy #overt #see

The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride?


Johann Hari


#barack-obama #elizabeth-ii #monarchy #monarchy-of-the-uk #postage-stamps

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.


Anthony Holden


#because #becomes #courts #dangers #edward

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


Princess Diana


#keeps #monarchy #people #touch #try

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.


Elizabeth I


#dangers #death #monarchs #ought #put

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


#class #democratic #democratic republic #instrument #less

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.


Lytton Strachey


#established #firmly #francis #i #monarchy

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.


Andrew Motion


#am #direction #evolve #feel #i