Monarchy

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

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I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

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

- Princess Diana Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In direct and indirect ways, ... Clinton sent messages to the Saudi monarchy If you want to help me, you'll increase oil production and hold down prices.

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Seven years up here (in the president's palace) are already a lot, another seven would ... perhaps mean a kind of republican monarchy.

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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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is not a monarchy.

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Here lies a King that ruled, as he thought fit, The universal monarchy of wit.

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

- Harold Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

- Edward Gibbon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

- Karl Liebknecht Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's time to start debating (an end to the monarchy) now.

- Graham Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

- Sting Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are saying what we have always said - that the political parties and the monarchy have to work together and take forward the process of reconciliation and dialogue and develop a national consensus.

- Navtej Sarna Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The founding fathers added the propositional dimension to American identity at the time of the Revolution. How else were they going to justify themselves in rebelling against the British monarchy

- Samuel Huntington Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We will intensify the protests until we get rid of the autocratic monarchy.

- Krishna Sitaula Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

India has consistently been supporting the democratic aspirations of the people of Nepal and hopes the executive authorities are now transferred from the monarchy to them.

- Shyam Saran Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.

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It was a missed opportunity. He was a royal but he didn't expect to be king, so he was also a commoner. He could have given a new thrust to the monarchy.

- Yubaraj Ghimire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is likely to be a sharp polarization on whether to retain a ceremonial monarchy or retain the monarchy at all.

- Yubaraj Ghimire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This movement has taken on an anti-monarchy dimension. That's a new component of the whole thing.

- Yubaraj Ghimire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have never said I am against the monarchy. I think they are a harmless, rather odd little family.

- George W. Bush Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.

- Rolf Harris Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king

- Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes