#monarchy

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#conducted #governments #infinite #monarchy #most

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy. ↗

— Sting

#cheers #give #greatly #i #monarchy

...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them. ↗

— Xenophon

#monarchy #war #men

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media. ↗

— Max Hastings

#doubt #early #family #felt #had

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. ↗

— Anthony Sampson

#egyptian #inside #liable #like #monarchy

Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That is really very very not very good! My grandfather is weeping in Heaven, or he would if there were such a place, which there is not because religion is a mystification contrived by monarchists! Again! Again, and this time do it properly! ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#heaven #monarchy #religion #faith

The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir *instantaneously*. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#does #empire #monarchy #overt #see