#monarch

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[M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum, supporting a mixed polity partaking of elements both royal and political, which is to say, popular and representative.


Patrick Collinson


#monarchy-of-the-uk #political-science #politics #royalty #science

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


King Abdullah II


#hand #i #inherited #monarchy #over

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


Daniel Ellsberg


#does #empire #monarchy #overt #see

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.


Prince Andrew


#incredibly #just #monarch #mother #our

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.


John Bates Clark


#begins #ceases #clothing #constitute #fruits

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

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'


Anthony Holden


#ask #could #enough #excuse #good

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


#account #after #attitudes #curious #monarchy

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.


Steven Patrick Morrissey


#business #continue #enormous #excessive #family

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.


Eliot Spitzer


#democratic #dictatorships #doomed #experiment #fail