Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic i...s a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others to... kneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have crossed the Andes, ascended Tenerife, entered Japan, "done" Niagara and the Thousand Isles, drunk delight of battle with o...ur peers (at shop windows), sat at the councils of the mighty, grown familiar with kings, emperors and queens, prima donnas, pets of the ballet, and "well graced actors." Ghosts have we seen and have not trembled; stood before royalty and have not uncovered; and looked, in short, through a three-inch lens at every single pomp and vanity of this wicked but beautiful world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...they seem embarrassed by their own stupid beauty./Erect, with those decorous irridescent [sic] rings/around their throats and e...yes,/theirs is the plump strut of royalty/parading dutifully among the poor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies... not in that direction; I love myself too well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't wish to give offense when I suggest that this country should select a king, or even a queen, rather than a president. One ...isn't that quick to shoot a king or a queen--the majesty of royalty, you see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent--a charac...ter in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »