The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights--the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, ...the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Silly people are apt to say, I had rather be governed by an absolute monarch than by the mob Mbut no country is governed by the mo...b. In a mere democratic government, a sort of government that never can exist long, the multitude may do many absurd and many unjust things--but what is called the mob in any regal country, however limited the crown, is an accidental, and a very transient tumult, and never did last above a few days--whereas the power of an absolute monarch is permanent, and can exercise injustice and tyranny at all seasons and at all times--nor is there any remedy, but when the tyranny is so frequent and so outrageous, that it occasions the murder of the tyrant--without preventing the succession of another as bad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perp...lexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all things in life, Mrs. Lee held this kind of court-service in contempt, for she was something more than republican--a little ...communistic at heart, and her only serious complaint of the President and his wife was that they undertook to have a court and to ape monarchy. She had no notion of admitting social superiority in any one, President or Prince, and to be suddenly converted into a lady-in-waiting to a small German Grand-Duchess, was a terrible blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Historically speaking, the most obvious and most decisive distinction between the American and the French Revolutions was that the... historical inheritance of the American Revolution was "limited monarchy" and that of the French Revolution an absolutism which apparently reached far back into the first centuries of our era and the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Nothing, indeed, seems more natural than that a revolution should be predetermined by the type of government it overthrows; nothing, therefore, appears more plausible than to explain the new absolute, the absolute revolution, by the absolute monarchy which preceded it, and to conclude that the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the lon...ger you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »