Quotes about Monarchy

Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Authority forgets a dying king.

With ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen

plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords

throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was

and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

Monarchy and succession have laid (not this or that kingdom only) but the world in blood and ashes.