royalty quotes

Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it† Its mystery isits life.We must not let indaylight uponmagic.

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

If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, it is all the more indispensable that there should be nobility of ascent; a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homagetothat which is the one pre-eminent distinctionthe royalty of virtue.

- Henry Codman Potter
  Washington centennial address, 30 Apr.

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

- Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie
  Sermon at a service to mark the Queen Mother's 80th birthday, St Paul's Cathedral,15 Jul.