monarchy quotes

The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardlyanywhere in the world understand any other.

-Walter Bagehot
  The English Constitution, ch.6,'The Monarchy'.

They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.

-Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, pt.2, ch.19.

The Film Industry is the American Monarchy: it is strict entailed succession and Horatio Alger in one. Except for the money manipulators and speculators on the top, it is a society built onwork, achievement, and fealty tothose in power.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Observations of a Backstage Wife'.

   My dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy.

-James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose
c.1642  'My Dear and Only Love', stanza1.

As a Minister, it is my policy to keep all the nationalities within the Habsburg monarchy in a balanced state of well-modulated dissatisfaction.

- Eduard FranzJosef, Graf von Taaffe
Letters.