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“It was inevitable under a monarchy, however benevolent the monarch. The old virtues disappear. Independence and frankness are at a discount. Complacent anticipation of the monarch's wishes is then the greatest of all virtues. One must either be a good monarch like yourself, or a good courtier like myself—either an Emperor or an idiot.”
― Robert Graves, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

“On occasions of this sort it was, I must admit, very pleasurable to be a monarch: to be able to get important things done by smothering stupid opposition with a single authoritative word.”
― Robert Graves, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

“I would rather be ruled by people who think they're going to fry in Hell forever if they rule me poorly, than by people for whom I'm merely a convenient economic siphon who can be milked like a cow.”
― Charles A. Coulombe

“..bid her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king’s and queen’s heads.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, My Lady Ludlow

“Democracy is a political form, a system of government. It has no social content, although it is frequently misused in that sense. It is wrong to say, “Mr. Green is very democratic; on his trips he sits down for lunch with his chauffeur.â€� He is, rather, a friend of simple people, and so is appropriately called demophile, not democratic. “Democracyâ€� is a Greek word composed of demos (the people) and krátos (power in a strong, almost brutal sense). The milder form would be arché which implies leadership rather than rule. Hence “monarchyâ€� is the fatherlike rule of a man in the interest of the common good, whereas “monocracyâ€� is a one-man tyranny.”
― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

“Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away.”
― Daniel Bliss

“My problem with democracy is that it doesn't exist. I'm not opposed to it. And I'm not opposed to the tooth fairy either.”
― Charles A. Coulombe

“Monarchy Sonnet

Bloodline doesn't determine destiny,
Only determination can do that.
Biology doesn't see royalty,
Only bugs without backbone do that.
They say above the law is nobody,
Yet the royalty makes their own law.
If this is what civilization is about,
It's much better to be an outlaw.
The very existence of monarchy,
Is a sign of a medieval society.
We deny visa to hopes and ambition,
Yet kings and queens receive undeniable loyalty.
So I address the monarchs of planet earth,
Grow up and give your character a real birth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent