The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
In sovereignty there are no gradations.
In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people. . . ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess
I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.
Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy. The monarch offers identity across generations, and is a part of these roots and this native country.
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
. . . a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
